Educational interventions on prevention of accidents in preschool children: integrative review

• Autor(a) principal: Azevedo, Suelen Brito
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Vasconcelos, Célia Maria Ribeiro de, Leal, Luciana Pedrosa, Vasconcelos, Maria Gorete Lucena de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufg.br/fen/article/view/47978

Trampling, drowning, falls, wounding and burns are the most prevalent accidents in preschool children. Caregivers, teachers and health professionals involved in the care of these children must focus on prevention actions. The objective of this study was to investigate the educational interventions for preventing accidentsin preschool children described in the scientific literature.  Integrative review carried out in the databases Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL, Medline, LILACS, IBECS,BDENF, CUIDEN and in the  Cochrane library, using the descriptors health education, accident prevention and preschool. Nineteen studies were selected, 13 of which included caregivers as target public. Games, videos, informative materials, counseling and lectures were the educational technologies most used. It was showed that, considering the target public socio-demographic and cultural context, the adequate selection of the pedagogical approach and of the educational technology can promote a better effect on the knowledge in the educational interventions about the accidents prevention.