Attitude of the teacher in teaching strategies in health promotion in road safety

Abstract

Around the world, about 1.25 million people die due to road accidents, and between 20 and 50 million suffer non-fatal injuries. In Venezuela, 90% of road accidents are due to poor road education translated into the adoption of risky driving behaviors. In the prevention of road accidents, the teacher's attitude towards the strategies used to teach road safety are key, especially because of this aspect there is little or no information. The attitude of the primary education teacher was determined in relation to teaching strategies for road safety, in a Trujillo State Parish, Venezuela, with important figures of road accidents. Descriptive, cross-sectional and field study, the sample consisted of 20 teachers, the information was collected through a questionnaire with a Likert scale. Teachers perceive high value teaching road safety as important to promote health, regardless of the pedagogical strategy used, while men downplay the fact.