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Comportamentos de risco para acidentes em playgrounds: identificação e opiniões de profissionais de educação infantil

2008; Linguagem: Inglês

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Rita Aparecida de Oliveira,

Contemporary Social and Educational Issues

This work identifies the emission of risk behaviors for children injury during children interaction in school playgrounds and the risk characteristics of toy, as such analyses the preschoolar professionals opinions (specially teachers one) in relation to those interactions and to the possible accidents that can occur intervention, by intervention with interaction scenes. 52 preschoolar students, 33 professionals and 31 teachers of two city infant schools of a city of Sao Paulo state. It uses movie takes, pre-tested questionnaires, and selected taken scenes, for brief intervention with teachers.As results, it identifies, by movie takes, the emission of risk behaviors at playgrounds, like “inapropriated use of toys”, “imitation (of dangerous behaviors)”, “competition for a toy”, and challenges (self-competition), such as several risk characteristics of toys, like toys standying at sun getting Sun energy and lack of physical barriers around the toys. The professionals’ opinions, got by questionnaires, shows: falls and schocks with toys and/or other children are the most frequent accidents, cause lack of attention by children; the trepa-trepa as the most dangerous toy, as well interactive situations between children and toys, mainly at slalow, and among children, during running; the orientation to children about the correct use of toys, as already taken measure, and that could be done, and chats and rules as already adopted works of injury prevention. At intervention, teachers saw risk behavior for injury prevention scenes and justify as variables to the occurance of these behaviors to the lack of perception of risk/danger, and that children want to explore the possibilities that toys get. They point as consequences injuries and traumas and point as injury prevention and promotion of safety the teachers’ attitudes, such as orientation and diary chats. In front of the results got, and the index of accidents, it concluded that the risk for injuries at playground are a reality but changes can occur to capacity the educational professionals to orientate children in injury prevention and safety promotion. The risk behaviors identified at movie takes could become issues to preventive actions, in the contexto formal education of students. It concluded that professionals have several and procedures, which could be enreached with na integrated interaction with health professionals and directed to students formation. Whatsoever, new studies are necessary to amplify and generalize the results got in this work.