2 Evaluations of these programs which we have considered here consist of both changes in injury rates, as well as changes in pedestrian behavior. We have not included evaluations based solely on changes in knowledge, attitudes, or reported behavior change, since these correlate poorly with actual behavior change. The addition of the parent component helped to improve behavior. Before-after design 5 year old children, Edinburgh. Artificial training and testing situation.
Results indicate potentially modest effect, although sample size very small.
Utilized parents and kindergarten teachers. Training appeared to improve crossing behavior, with training by parents almost as good as training by research assistants. Children knew they were being observed so that this should be viewed as optimal behavior. Consisted of four 10-15 minute training sessions per task. Observations of children crossing real streets.