100 Establishing the effectiveness of a storybook for teaching home safety to preschool children
Bibliographic record
Abstract
<h3>Statement of Purpose</h3> Unintentional injuries are a serious concern for young children, frequently resulting in disability and death. Safety interventions that target the child as an agent of change are needed, particularly because parents cannot constantly supervise. The present study examined whether a storybook can educate about home hazards and reduce the hazard-directed risk behaviours of children aged 3.5 to 5.5 years. <h3>Methods</h3> Preschoolers were randomly assigned to the control condition (a storybook about healthy eating) or the intervention condition (a storybook about home hazards) and were required to read the assigned storybook with their mother for four weeks. <h3>Results</h3> Comparing children’s pre- and post-intervention knowledge and risk behaviours indicated that children in the intervention condition were able to identify more hazards, provide more comprehensive explanations, and demonstrate less risky behaviours, in comparison to those in the control group. Hence, the storybook improved both safety knowledge and behaviors. <h3>Conclusion</h3> Together, the findings suggest that a storybook can be an effective resource in educating young children about home safety and promoting safety practices that are likely to reduce risk of injury. <h3>Significance</h3> The findings indicate that engaging children in reading a storybook about home hazards with their parents can not only increase their knowledge but also reduce their hazard-directed risk behaviors at home.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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