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KMID : 0858820050220040041
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2005 Volume.22 No. 4 p.41 ~ p.56
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Students’, Teachers’, and Parents’ Safety Concerns Affecting Students’ Safety Behaviors of Elementary Schools in Korea
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Lee Myung-Sun
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Abstract
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Objectives: More than 80% of unintentional injury was related to risk-taking behaviors involved in child accidents. Therefore, diverse care and concerns on safety should be provided from teachers as well as parents to build child safety behaviors. The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of safety concerns from students, teachers, and parents on elementary students’’ safety behaviors in Korea.
Methods: The 5th and 6th grade students participated in this study in 14 elementary schools in Korea and the total number of students was 1,033. The study schools were selected by the stratified cluster sampling method throughout 7 metropolitan areas in Korea. Data were collected by the self-administered survey and the questionnaires were delivered to the vice-principals of the designated schools by ground postal service and the vice-principals conducted survey data collection. The questions on students’’ safety concerns, teachers’’ safety concerns, parents’’ safety concerns, safety practices, safety education, and demographics were included in the survey. All survey responses were encoded into SPSS program and t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis were utilized.
Results: The students taking accidents one time more per year were more than 60% and the two thirds of them recognized that their accidents were due to their risk behaviors. Parents’’ education on safety practices was more frequent than teachers’’ education; furthermore, teachers’’ concerns on safety behaviors were poorer than students’’ or parents’’ concerns. In terms of safety behaviors, the scores of fire and home-related safety behavior were high but the scores of traffic and bicycle, in particular, helmet wearing practice were low. Three concerns from students, parents, and teachers all were significantly related to children’’s safety behaviors.
Conclusions: In conclusion, safety concerns from the close networks are the important indicator of child safety behaviors and, the safety training programs, therefore, for parents and teachers as well as for students need to be developed for improving children’’s safe behaviors.
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KEYWORD
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Safety Concerns, Safety Behavior, Elementary School, Child, Parent, Teacher
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