Children are particularly
concerned by dog bites, many of them are bitten in familiar
situations and theirs wounds are generally serious. Current
preventive measures are mainly targeted on control and restriction
of dogs, and not on the population at risk. This research
assesses, by means of a questionnaire (Q-PAM), an educational
dog bites prevention program with 92 pupils in first and
second elementary school grades. The pupils were also filmed
in several at risk situations. Several independent variables
were considered. Results reveal that the prevention program
has significant positive effects on knowledge of the pupils
who followed it, and this still a month after the intervention.
No other independent variable seems to influence these results.
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