[ efficacity of two procedures [lecturing and story telling] on knowledge and attitude of the third grade boy pupils in Shahrekord on accident prevention]

ABSTRACT

Accidents and injuries are complicated phenomena being interfered by many factors in their appearance. In recent years, extensive measures are fulfilled on assigning appropriate educational contents and applied educational methods for accident prevention and immuny promotion. In spite of its high prevalence, severe disability and high mortality result from accidents and injuries between all age groups, particularly pupils in elementary schools. So the role of education by using appropriate methods will be important in this regard. This study was accomplished with aim of considering the efficacy of education by two procedures [lecturing and story telling] on knowledge and attitude of the third grade boy pupils on accident prevention. In this quasi experimental study, 150 pupils were selected from 5 schools by simple random sampling. Then the pupils were interviewed before and after training [14 knowledge questions and 9 attitude questions]. Afterward, demographic variables such as parents job , parents literacy, birth place and number of children were extracted from their history records. Then the information was analyzed by T Test, independent sample test, Anova test, spearman correlation and descriptive statistical indexes. There was a significant relationship between the pupils knowledge and the literacy of their parents. Also there was a significant reversed relationship between their birth place and number of family members. The results showed that knowledge and attitude promotion with story telling procedure is more important than lecturing procedure. In this study it was demonstrated that using proper and efficient methods on health education for pupils such as story telling or other active educational methods is perfectly effective and it can promote the level of knowledge and attitude of the people