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Teaching children road safety through storybooks: an approach to child health literacy in Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) commonly affect the younger population in low- and-middle-income countries. School children may be educated about road safety using storybooks with colorful pictures, which tends to increase the child's interest in the text. Therefore, this study assessed the use of bilingual pictorial storybooks to improve RTI prevention knowledge among school children.This pretest-posttest study was conducted in eight public and nine private schools of Karachi, Pakistan, between February to May 2015. Children in grades four and five were enrolled at baseline (n?=?410). The intervention was an interactive discussion about RTI prevention using a bilingual (Urdu and English) pictorial storybook. A baseline test was conducted to assess children's pre-existing knowledge about RTI prevention followed by administration of the intervention. Two posttests were conducted: first immediately after the intervention, and second after 2 months. Test scores were analyzed using McNemar test and paired sample t-test.There were 57% girls and 55% public school students; age range 8-16 years. Compared to the overall baseline score (5.1?±?1.4), the number of correct answers increased in both subsequent tests (5.9?±?1.2 and 6.1?±?1.1 respectively, p-value?

SUBMITTER: Ahmad H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5804052 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Teaching children road safety through storybooks: an approach to child health literacy in Pakistan.

Ahmad Haris H Naeem Rubaba R Feroze Asher A Zia Nukhba N Shakoor Amarah A Khan Uzma Rahim UR Mian Asad Iqbal AI

BMC pediatrics 20180207 1

<h4>Background</h4>Road traffic injuries (RTIs) commonly affect the younger population in low- and-middle-income countries. School children may be educated about road safety using storybooks with colorful pictures, which tends to increase the child's interest in the text. Therefore, this study assessed the use of bilingual pictorial storybooks to improve RTI prevention knowledge among school children.<h4>Methods</h4>This pretest-posttest study was conducted in eight public and nine private schoo ...[more]

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