Child-to-Child Training for Prevention of School Injuries in Odemis, Turkey

Abstract

Students encounter many risks for injury, which can impact their health and educational success; prevention of these injuries are paramount for school nurses. These article report results of a study conducted to determine the efficacy of training given to children regarding prevention of school injuries and to compare the effectiveness of instructor-to-child training to that of the child-to-child training method in affecting student attitudes toward the prevention of school injuries. An interventional teaching program was developed with the objective of positively impacting students' attitudes toward preventing school injuries. The health care training using instructor-to-child and child-to-child training produced a similar effect in changing the attitudes of students with respect to preventing school injuries. Given the high ratio of children to school nurses within the school systems in Turkey, nurses could consider the use of child-to-child training to supplement their own health care training to support changes in students' attitudes toward prevention of school injuries.

Comparing peer-led and adult-led education to promote a healthy diet among Turkish school children

“…Thus, it was concluded that peer-led dietary education could be used as an alternative approach in future school-based health education interventions, even though it did not lead to any changes in the children's diet self-efficacy and behaviors in this study. This result supported the findings of other studies in which peer-led education was implemented to prevent school injuries and to improve students' oral health behaviors (19,30).…”

“…Peer-led training has been found to increase knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs, and to promote health behaviors more than adult-led training (13,14). Peer-led training has been used in the school environment for the following purposes: prevention of obesity (15), prevention of substance abuse (16), prevention of smoking (17), nutrition promotion (14,18), and prevention of injuries (19). In schools lacking nurses, promoting students' healthy dietary habits through peer-led training should be considered as a method that will contribute to the promotion of public health.…”

Bir İlkokulda Okul Kazalarının Önlenmesinde Çocuktan Çocuğa Eğitimin Etkinliği: Randomize Kontrollü Çalışma

“…The researcher considers that child-to-child education is suitable for providing health education. There are different studies showing that child-to-child education is effective in the literature 5,11,12,21 .…”

“…The scale can be applied to all students of primary school age, except for the first-year students. Items 2,3,4,5,7,10,12,20,21,22,26,32,34,36,37,38, and 39 are reverse scored. As a result, each student is able to obtain a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 200 points.…”

“…Approximately 40% of school-related accidents are caused by issues or deficiencies in the immediate environment. However, studies show that children's behavior, rather than physical conditions, causes these accidents.. 5,6 Since injuries are one of the leading causes of death for children and adolescents, prevention of accidental injuries in children is an important problem. Training programs should be provided in order to prevent injuries in children, situations and behaviors that may cause injury should be identified, and children should be given the skills to avoid these.…”