Third grade students: per cent correct post-test responses
| Correct responses (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poison item | Intervention (n=110) | Control (n=113) | Odds ratio | 95% CI |
| 1. What is a poison? | 95.4 | 70.8 | 8.7 | 3.1 to 29.4 |
| 2. Where are poisons found? | 94.5 | 50.4 | 17.0 | 6.7 to 50.7 |
| 3. Name some poisonous spiders | 75.4 | 6.1 | 46.6 | 18.1 to 124.9 |
| 4. Can you always tell which spiders are poisonous just by looking at them? | 71.8 | 56.6 | 2.0 | 1.1 to 3.5 |
| 5. Name some poisonous snakes | 66.3 | 39.8 | 3.0 | 1.7 to 5.4 |
| 6. Should you pick up a “strange” snake or a spider? | 99.0 | 99.1 | 0.97 | 0.01 to 77.1 |
| 7. What would you do if you were bitten by a spider or a snake? | 100.0 | 76.1 | Undefined | — |
| 8. If you're not sure if something is safe to eat or drink what should you do? | 98.1 | 82.3 | 11.6 | 2.7 to 104.2 |
| 9. Should you ever take medicine without a grown-up present? | 99.0 | 96.4 | 4.0 | 0.39 to 198.8 |
| 10. Which one (props) is safe to eat or drink? | 97.2 | 76.9 | 10.7 | 3.1 to 56.3 |
| 11. Show me how to do the stingray shuffle | 24.5 | 8.8 | 3.4 | 1.4 to 7.9 |
| 12. Tell me what this is? (poison center telephone sticker) | 99.0 | 30.9 | 242.9 | 38.2 to 9800.7 |
| 13. Where are you supposed to put the sticker? | 99.0 | 23.0 | 364.7 | 56.1 to 14694.8 |
| 14. Do you know the different forms of poison? | 25.4 | 0.0 | Undefined | — |
| 15. Do you know some ways a poison gets into the body? | 98.1 | 76.1 | 17.0 | 4.0 to 149.7 |
| 16. Do you know how to make your home safer for your little brothers, sisters, or friends? | 89.0 | 22.1 | 28.8 | 12.9 to 65.4 |
| 17. What would you do if a little brother or sister or friend was poisoned? | 100.0 | 77.8 | Undefined | — |