Water safety: Age-specific changes in knowledge and attitudes following a school-based intervention

Injury Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 120-124

  Terzidis, Agis ^a   Koutroumpa, Anastasia ^a,b   Skalkidis, Ilias ^a   Matzavakis, Ioannis ^a   Malliori, Meni ^a   Frangakis, Constantine E ^c   DiScala, Carla ^d   Petridou, Eleni T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; DROWNING; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SAFETY; SCHOOL; SWIMMING;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DROWNING; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; SAFETY; SCHOOLS; SWIMMING; WATER;

EID: 34248161037     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2006.014316     Document Type: Article

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