Nowadays according to the complexity of our daily life due to the development of industry and transportation various kinds of injuries happen. Since 1993 the death rate among 5∼14 age children by injuries amount to about 57%. Furthermore, the injury of children can give a direct damage to their own family and it can also bring a serious loss to the country as well as the community where they live in accord with degree of an injury. From this reason, the importance of safety education has been increasing.
In this study, it is aimed to clarify the effect of injury preventive behaviors on injury incidence of the 6th grade students in the elementary school. This study is accomplished by the survey sampled from 9 elementary schools in seoul, each of which belong to different district. The survey tool for 15 days from the data of september 10th 1996 to september 25th 1996 and the results were as follows ;
1. For demographic characteristic, sexual distribution was 48.7% of male students and 47.1% of female students. The required time from home to school was 10∼19 minutes(51.8%), and the most way of their going to school is to walk(98.7%). Mothers who graduated from high school were 46.6% and 49.4% of fathers were above university graduated level. The most vocation of mothers was housewife as 56.7%.
2. The results of analysis on the injury rates, 75.8% of children experienced more than one injury and the most was play injury. With regards to sites where injuries happened, the room, the kitchen, and the living room in the house ranked first(38.3%) and then injuries at school such as on the playground, in the classroom, and on the stairs was 34.1%.
3. Considering the rate of injury incidence in accordance with demographic characteristics, male students experienced more injuries than female students(p<0.05). For the way from home to school, children who went to school by bicycle experienced that most injuries and then on foot, by bus in order of which differences were statistically significant(p<0.05).
4. From the comparison on parents´ safety education practice and the injury incidence, the less often parents safety education, the more often children experience injuries(p<0.05).
5. The results of analysis on the effect of injury preventive behaviors on accidents children who didn´t act injury preventive behaviors experienced much more injuries than those who did injury preventive behaviors of which differences were statistically significant(p<0.01).
6. From the results of analysis of factors effecting on the elementary school children´s injuries children without injury preventive behaviors had more effect on accidents than those who has injury preventive behaviors as odds ratio 2.06(p<0.01), and the odds ratio of male students compared with female students was 1.47(p<0.05).
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