期刊名称：European Journal of Physical Education and Sport
印刷版ISSN：2310-0133
出版年度：2018
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：68-79
DOI：10.13187/ejpe.2018.2.68
出版社：Nauchnyi Izdatel'skii Dom Issledovatel',Academic Publishing House Researcher
摘要：The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of the participation of students with special needs in a health education program for injuries prevention. Ten students of secondary education with mental retardation, aged 17.63+2.018 years, were separated randomly to an intervention group who participated in a 10-week health education program for injuries prevention and a control group who, at the same period, did not attend any extra lesson except the defined ones from the Ministry of Education. Before and after the 10-week period all the students, from both the intervention and the control group, filled in the same questionnaires in order to collect information about their injuries, their experience concerning them, as well their knowledge, attitude and behavior towards injuries. For data analysis, descriptive analysis and the chi square test (x2) of the SPSS ver. 17.0 for windows was used. By processing the data, it was shown that the majority of the students (70 %) have an injury experience, either at home (57.1 %) or at school (28.6 %). From the injuries at school, a very significant proportion (38.6 %) occurred during the break, while 32.8 % of the students’ injuries occurred in the corridor. In addition, after participating in the 10-week health education program, the students of the intervention group, acquired knowledge regarding possible dangers, understood that they should not run in the school property, that they should not step or run on wet floor, as well as that they should not push others. They also learned how to use electrical appliances and cleaning agents of household equipment properly, and that they should be careful for themselves and for their peers in order to prevent injuries. Likewise, no difference in the control group was observed. Furthermore, the x2 test proved a very significant effect of the students’ participation in the health education program regarding injuries’ prevention, the knowledge and the right attitude and behavior towards it (Pearson x2= 4.286-6.667, p<0.05, Cramer’s V= 0.655-0.816). Consequently, the implementation of health education programs for the prevention of injuries at students of secondary education with special needs is very important because through them students perceive possible risks and how they should act and behave in certain situations in order not to expose themselves and others to dangers and also prevent injuries.
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