Brief Report: Increasing Children's Safe Pedestrian Behaviors Through Simple Skills Training
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Objectives: Hundreds of American children are killed and thousands more injured annually as pedestrians. Simple and effective interventions targeting behavioral changes in children are needed.
Methods: The present study tested a simple, skill-based training method for increasing safe pedestrian behaviors. Eighty-five children ages 5-8 participated.
Results: Children behaved more safely following training, indicating very brief training can produce at least short-term improvements in pedestrian behaviors.
Conclusions: Results are discussed with regard to the involvement of parents in the practical application of a simple training procedure and future directions for pedestrian interventions.
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