Can Swimming Teaching Prevent Drowning? An Experimental Study of Children in China

Shichao Zhang, Jia Dai, Zhenxin Nie and Zaoli Yang

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2022, vol. 2022, 1-8

Abstract: Background. The drowning death rate of Chinese students ranks among the top three in the world, and drowning has become an urgent problem for the country and society to solve. Objective. To test whether traditional swimming teaching can improve students’ knowledge and skills of water safety and reduce the probability of drowning in China. Methods. A total of 82 second-grade students in elementary school were selected as experimental subjects, and the repeated measures analysis of variance experiment design was used to carry out the research. Results. After the experiment, the swimming safety education model significantly increased the scores of swimming safety knowledge and skills and the difference was statistically significant (t = 4.060, 5.325, P

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1155/2022/6141342

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