Citation

Renaud L, Suissa S. Am. J. Public Health 1989; 79(3): 307-309.

Affiliation

Department of Community Health, Montreal General Hospital, Quebec, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, American Public Health Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2916716

PMCID

PMC1349553

Abstract

Using a simulation game designed to teach children to obey certain traffic safety rules, an experimental study was conducted with 136 five-year-old children in four Quebec schools. Within each classroom, subjects were randomly divided into four groups: three intervention groups and one control group. Each of the experimental groups was subjected to a different intervention with outcome measured using three instruments related to attitudes, behavior, and transfer of learning of pedestrian traffic safety. Results suggest that simulation games including role-playing/group dynamics and modeling/training can change attitudes and modify behavior in the area of pedestrian traffic safety in children of this age.

Language: en