Effect of the Safe Fall Programme on Children’s Health and Safety: Dealing Proactively with Backward Falls in Physical Education Classes

Luis Toronjo-Hornillo, Óscar DelCastillo-Andrés, María Del Carmen Campos-Mesa, Víctor Manuel Díaz Bernier and María Luisa Zagalaz Sánchez
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Luis Toronjo-Hornillo: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Óscar DelCastillo-Andrés: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
María Del Carmen Campos-Mesa: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Víctor Manuel Díaz Bernier: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
María Luisa Zagalaz Sánchez: Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-8

Abstract: The aim of this study is to show that the implementation of the Safe Fall programme in physical education classes can help to reduce the negative effects of unintentional backward falls in the adolescent population, by teaching them how to protect themselves when falling. A quasi-experimental research design was applied in a sample of 120 children (M = 15.1 years, SD = 2.45), attending a secondary school in Seville (Spain). Data was collected on an ad hoc observation scale INFOSECA (which records five basic elements during a backward fall: position of the neck, the hands, the trunk, the hips, and the knees), applying descriptive, correlational, and contrast statistics. The criteria for considering statistical significance was p < 0.05 in McNemar’s test. The data indicates that learning safe and protected ways of falling backward is possible through the implementation of the Safe Fall programme, and no differences were found in terms of gender.

Keywords: falls; childhood; prevention; education; school health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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