Teaching children road safety through storybooks: an approach to child health literacy in Pakistan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Road traffic injuries (RTIs) commonly affect the younger population in low- and-middle-income countries. School children may be educated about road safety using storybooks with colorful pictures, which tends to increase the child's interest in the text. Therefore, this study assessed the use of bilingual pictorial storybooks to improve RTI prevention knowledge among school children.

Methods

This pretest-posttest study was conducted in eight public and nine private schools of Karachi, Pakistan, between February to May 2015. Children in grades four and five were enrolled at baseline (n = 410). The intervention was an interactive discussion about RTI prevention using a bilingual (Urdu and English) pictorial storybook. A baseline test was conducted to assess children'

SUBMITTER: Ahmad H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5804052 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature