期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2020
卷号：10
期号：15
页码：305-314
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v10-i15/8251
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Children are one of the highest risk groups of those who experience fire and burn related deaths and injuries at home. Compound, living room, bedroom, kitchen and stairs were the five most common locations of injuries. To study the effectiveness of fire and burns at home education among primary school children in Hulu Langat, Selangor. Method: This study uses pre-test and post-test Quasi Experimental design to evaluate the effectiveness of fire and burns at home education among primary school children in Hulu Langat, Selangor. The total number of 152 (76 x 2) students involved in this study from two primary schools. Students were divided into control and experimental groups. Experimental group was introduced with intervention learning model. Both groups were distributed with self-administered, validated and pre-tested questionnaires regarding their knowledge on fire and burns at home. Descriptive analysis was used for social-demographic distribution. As the data were normally distributed, Independent T-test was performed to compare between two unpaired groups while Paired T-test was used to compare the knowledge score before after the introduction of learning model. Data was analysed using SPSS version 21. Result: There was a significant improvement in the knowledge level among the experimental group after they participated in the educational session (p < 0.001). The background knowledge level between control and experimental groups were not significantly different (p = 0.97). However, a higher knowledge level was significantly seen in a sub-group of urban school compared to rural school (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Thus, educational and intervention program are necessary to improve the knowledge level of the children. This improvement is expected to encourage the children to mould behaviour from young ages so that safety and preventive methods become a practice.
