The effectiveness of using pictures in teaching young children about burn injury accidents

This study utilized the “story grammar” approach (Stein and Glenn, 1979) to analyze the within-corpus differences in recounting of sixty 6- and 7-year-old children, specifically whether illustrations (5-factor accident sequence) were or were not resorted to as a means to assist their narration of a...

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Published in:Applied ergonomics 2015-11, Vol.51, p.60-68
Main Authors: Liu, Hsueh-Fen, Lin, Fang-Suey, Chang, Chien-Ju
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
5-Factor accident sequence
Accident Prevention - methods
Accidents, Home - prevention & control
Adolescent
Audiovisual Aids
Burns
Burns - epidemiology
Burns - etiology
Burns - prevention & control
Child
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Consumer Health Information - methods
Female
Household accidents & safety
Humans
Injuries
Male
Narratives
Storytelling
Taiwan
Teaching
Young children burn injury
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Summary:This study utilized the “story grammar” approach (Stein and Glenn, 1979) to analyze the within-corpus differences in recounting of sixty 6- and 7-year-old children, specifically whether illustrations (5-factor accident sequence) were or were not resorted to as a means to assist their narration of a home accident in which a child received a burn injury from hot soup. Our investigation revealed that the message presentation strategy “combining oral and pictures” better helped young children to memorize the story content (sequence of events leading to the burn injury) than “oral only.” Specifically, the content of “the dangerous objects that caused the injury”, “the unsafe actions that people involved took”, and “how the people involved felt about the severity of the accident” differed significantly between the two groups. •Preventing burns injuries can reduce home accidents for children under 6 in Taiwan.•Sequence diagrams are an image type appropriate to children's cognitive ability.•Burn stories using sequence diagrams aid a child's memory of burn injury severity.
ISSN:0003-6870
1872-9126
DOI:10.1016/j.apergo.2015.04.013