Effectiveness of Puppet Show on Knowledge about Child Safety Based on Learning Styles among School Children at Udupi District in India Fernandes Josvita Sandra1, George Anice2, Manjula3,* 1MSc Nursing Student, Community Health Nursing Department, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India 2Dean, Community Health Nursing Department, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India 3Assistant Professor in Community Health Nursing Department, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India *Corresponding Author: Ms Manjula, Assistant Professor, Community Health Nursing Department, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal-576104, Karnataka, India, Phone: 9535269957, Email: manjuuppi@yahoo.in
Online published on 23 December, 2019. Abstract Introduction Child injury is a global public health issue. Creating awareness on child safety among children is very necessary for the better understanding of the problems among children. Objective to identify the learning styles, incidence of child injury, knowledge regarding child safety, effectiveness of puppet show as a teaching method in improving the knowledge on child safety, find the difference in the knowledge scores regarding child safety among 5th and 6th standard students with different learning styles. Methodology A total of 111 participants from 5th and 6th standard were selected for the study, using multistage cluster sampling method. Results Among 111, most (55%) were visual learners and remaining were auditory learners. The overall occurrence of child injuries (involved 4 areas i.e road injury, pedestrian injury, sports and playground injury and good touch and bad touch) was 98.19% among study participants. In the pre-test, majority of the participants (76.6%) had poor knowledge and 23.4% had satisfactory knowledge and none of them had excellent or good knowledge on child safety. In the post-test 36.9% had excellent knowledge and 38.7% had good knowledge, 24.3% had satisfactory knowledge and none had poor knowledge. Puppet show was effective in increasing the knowledge level on child safety (Z=-9.153, P=0.001). Puppet show as a teaching method, does not make any difference in the knowledge grasping capacity of students with different learning styles (Z=-1.626, P = 0.104). Conclusion The study concluded that puppet show as a teaching method is a useful and effective teaching strategy which can be utilised in order to teach the students. Top Keywords Knowledge, child safety, puppet show, learning styles. Top |