Traffic Injuries: Peer-Educational Prevention: Still the Best Solution?

Introduction:In 2013, there were 159.152 admissions to hospitals related to traffic injuries.Considering all sorts of external causes, traffic injuries constitute a significant portion, accounting for more than 20% of deaths.The aim of this study is to assess children's perception on traumatic events surveyed by medical students as well as identify if the peer-educational in private or public schools have the same impact. Methods of research:A prospective interventional comparative cohort study with children from a basic school in the city of Curitiba-PR.A survey with a large number of questions on road safety issues, traffic behavioral issue and 8 decision-making questions about traffic scenarios was applied from May to June 2016, before and after a peer-educational lecture on prevention of traffic injuries.Results: When comparing the results of public and private schools between themselves, it can be observed that on the private schools the average score on the first exam was of 77.62% and of 78.37% on the second one.However on public schools the average was of 68.75% on the first test and on the second exam the average was the exact same of the private schools result on it, 78.37%.Summing up, the public schools average had an improvement of 14% compared to the first test, with a significant difference, p = 0.01370.While on the pre test, there was an average score of 6.21 in private schools and 5.5 in public ones, with p = 0.0000013, in the post-lecture, the average score on private and public schools was of 6.27, resulting in p < 0.0000001. Conclusion:Our prevention activity aiming to identify where we could have greater impact, resulted on us observing that private schools had lower results and the impact was better in public schools.