Jieyi He, Wanhui Wang, Peishan Ning, David C Schwebel, Yang Yang, Peixia Cheng, Jie Li, Min Zhao, Weiqiang Li, Na Zhang, Han Liu, Guoqing Hu
BACKGROUND: Interactive and experiential learning programs have proven effective to teach children safety and prevent child unintentional injury. However, previously-published programs were designed primarily to address safety concerns of children living in urban, well-resourced areas, and therefore might be less effective or economically infeasible to distribute to children in resource-limited areas, such as those living in rural areas or underdeveloped regions. This proposed study will evaluate the effectiveness of teaching children safety lessons to rural preschoolers in China through the preschool-based Safety Experience Room intervention that was developed based on relevant theories, the lessons of previous intervention research, the characteristics of child injuries in underdeveloped rural areas, and the needs and circumstances of rural families and preschools in China...
March 20, 2023: BMC Public Health