Abstract
Objectives This study analyzed the overall effect of safety education through meta-analysis targeting studies related to effective school-age safety education program. Methods When the safety education program was conducted as an experimental study for elementary school students with an experimental group and a comparative group, 13 papers published in Korea by 2020 were chosen for this reason. All 33 full studies' effect sizes were calculated, and a meta-analysis was carried out using statistical transformation. Results The school-age child safety education program was found to have a significant effect, and in particular, safety knowledge showed the highest effect size. Among the child safety education programs, the effectiveness of safety education was found in the following order: activity and participation-oriented programs; assimilation and reading utilization programs; lecture-oriented programs using audiovisual materials; and web-based programs. Conclusions By focusing on activities and participation-oriented programs for school-age safety education, the effectiveness of school-age safety education can be maximized through effective media selection in developing programs to improve safety behaviors and attitudes as well as children's safety knowledge.
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