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Road traffic accident is the top leading cause of death among children in Korea. Especially, the accident rate of the lower grades in elementary school is approximately 2 times higher than those of the upper grades. 
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of a participatory road traffic safety education for the lower grades in elementary school in Korea. For this purose, the safety education was developed based on the Activated Health Education(AHE) model. 
Study design was Compromise Experimental Group Pre-Post Design. 456 students in the 8 elementary schools were nonrandomly assigned to study group(n=224) and control(n=232). To measure the effectiveness of this education, the students finished self-administrative questionnaire about knowledge and attitude of road safety before and after the  intervention which was provided to the study group for 6 weeks, and an hour every week. Each class activities were developed to increase student's participation on each safety classs. 
The collected data was analyzed by using the SPSS 12.0 version. The results of this study were as follows;
1. The common infulential factor in the road traffic safety knowledge and attitude before intervention was 'the residential state', and 'the experience of road traffic accident'.
2. In aspect of the knowldege domain, the difference from the result of the case group was statistically significant(P<0.001).
3. In aspect of the Attitude domain, the difference from the result of the case group was statistically significant(P<0.05).

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