| Abstract: | The purposes of this study are to investigate the child safety knowledge, attitudes of self-protection.
The questionnaire were filled by 2153 elementary school students in Taipei and Wufeng area of Taichung. Taipei 1,198 effective samples, the effective recovery rate of 79%. Wufeng District, Taichung City 976 valid samples, the effective recovery rate of 86%. Being analyzed by SPSS17.0, the results revealed as follows. 1. Most safety knowledge of children comes from parents and elders, secondly the teachers. When compared the score of knowledge, attitude and behavior with the total scores individually, the rates are 4.04/5, 9.47/12, and 10.88/15 respectively. 2. Talking about safety education knowledge of children, “grade”, “gender”, “main knowledge sources”, “main carer”, “educational level”, “social-economic status” and “ever discussed about self-protection topic with children” play significant role. As for the attitude, “grade”, “gender”, “main knowledge sources”, “main carer”, “educational level”, and “social-economic status” arrived a significant difference. In the meantime, “grade”, “gender”, “main knowledge sources”, “main carer”, “educational level”, and “ever discussed about self-protection topic with children” are significant on the behavior. In summary, there is positive relationship among safety knowledge, attitude and behavior. 3. The explained variance of the general background factors, safety knowledge and attitude to safety behavior amounted to 21.7%.
Suggestion was made to promote the accomplishment of children safety behavior, the strengthening of the school and family education about safety knowledge and attitude of children is required. |
