Doctoral Dissertations

Date of Award

3-1982

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Major Professor

Warren J. Huffman

Committee Members

A. F. Thompson, Bill C. Wallace, Herbert Howard

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare integrated vs. non-integrated methods of safety instruction to determine differences in subsequent school accidents. The study was designed to answer the following major question: Is there a difference in the frequency of school accidents between students completing integrated safety instruction and those completing non-integrated safety instruction?

A selected Tennessee city school system (elementary K-6 grades) was utilized in this study. All K-6 students in the selected city school system were given either the integrated safety education program or the non-integrated safety education program for academic school year 1979-1980. Accident reports were then collected from the participants of the programs for academic school year 1980-1981.

The findings as a result of analysis of the data supported the following conclusions:

1. The integrated method of safety instruction had a lower frequency of accidents for stu-dents in K-6 grades (students 5-14 years of age) than the non-integrated method of safety instruction.

2. Of the variables examined for their relationship to frequency of accident by type of instructional program, these were found occurrence (non-integrated students had a higher frequency of accidents in areas significant: sex of the student (males had a higher accident frequency than did females in either program but the significance was more pronounced in the non-integrated program), place of accident other than playground/physical education), injury sustained (non-integrated students had a higher frequency of serious injury accidents than integrated students), how the accident occurred (non-integrated students had a higher frequency of accidents that were play related than did integrated students), and accident seriousness (non-integrated students had a higher frequency of serious treatment accidents than integrated students). The following variables showed no significant relationship: grade level (K-6), age of the student (5-14 years), and month of accident occurrence (August through June).

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