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Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to estimate use of helmets, lights, and visible clothing among cyclists and to examine trip and personal characteristics associated with their use. METHODS: Using data from a study of transportation infrastructure and injuries to 690 adult cyclists in Toronto an...

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Autores principales: Teschke, Kay, Brubacher, Jeff R, Friedman, Steven M, Cripton, Peter A, Harris, M Anne, Reynolds, Conor CO, Shen, Hui, Monro, Melody, Hunte, Garth, Chipman, Mary, Cusimano, Michael D, Lea, Nancy Smith, Babul, Shelina, Winters, Meghan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22966752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-765
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author Teschke, Kay
Brubacher, Jeff R
Friedman, Steven M
Cripton, Peter A
Harris, M Anne
Reynolds, Conor CO
Shen, Hui
Monro, Melody
Hunte, Garth
Chipman, Mary
Cusimano, Michael D
Lea, Nancy Smith
Babul, Shelina
Winters, Meghan
author_facet Teschke, Kay
Brubacher, Jeff R
Friedman, Steven M
Cripton, Peter A
Harris, M Anne
Reynolds, Conor CO
Shen, Hui
Monro, Melody
Hunte, Garth
Chipman, Mary
Cusimano, Michael D
Lea, Nancy Smith
Babul, Shelina
Winters, Meghan
author_sort Teschke, Kay
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description BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to estimate use of helmets, lights, and visible clothing among cyclists and to examine trip and personal characteristics associated with their use. METHODS: Using data from a study of transportation infrastructure and injuries to 690 adult cyclists in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada, we examined the proportion who used bike lights, conspicuous clothing on the torso, and helmets on their injury trip. Multiple logistic regression was used to examine associations between personal and trip characteristics and each type of safety equipment. RESULTS: Bike lights were the least frequently used (20% of all trips) although they were used on 77% of trips at night. Conspicuous clothing (white, yellow, orange, red) was worn on 33% of trips. Helmets were used on 69% of trips, 76% in Vancouver where adult helmet use is required by law and 59% in Toronto where it is not. Factors positively associated with bike light use included night, dawn and dusk trips, poor weather conditions, weekday trips, male sex, and helmet use. Factors positively associated with conspicuous clothing use included good weather conditions, older age, and more frequent cycling. Factors positively associated with helmet use included bike light use, longer trip distances, hybrid bike type, not using alcohol in the 6 hours prior to the trip, female sex, older age, higher income, and higher education. CONCLUSIONS: In two of Canada’s largest cities, helmets were the most widely used safety equipment. Measures to increase use of visibility aids on both daytime and night-time cycling trips may help prevent crashes.
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spelling pubmed-34909302012-11-07 Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists: a cross-sectional study Teschke, Kay Brubacher, Jeff R Friedman, Steven M Cripton, Peter A Harris, M Anne Reynolds, Conor CO Shen, Hui Monro, Melody Hunte, Garth Chipman, Mary Cusimano, Michael D Lea, Nancy Smith Babul, Shelina Winters, Meghan BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to estimate use of helmets, lights, and visible clothing among cyclists and to examine trip and personal characteristics associated with their use. METHODS: Using data from a study of transportation infrastructure and injuries to 690 adult cyclists in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada, we examined the proportion who used bike lights, conspicuous clothing on the torso, and helmets on their injury trip. Multiple logistic regression was used to examine associations between personal and trip characteristics and each type of safety equipment. RESULTS: Bike lights were the least frequently used (20% of all trips) although they were used on 77% of trips at night. Conspicuous clothing (white, yellow, orange, red) was worn on 33% of trips. Helmets were used on 69% of trips, 76% in Vancouver where adult helmet use is required by law and 59% in Toronto where it is not. Factors positively associated with bike light use included night, dawn and dusk trips, poor weather conditions, weekday trips, male sex, and helmet use. Factors positively associated with conspicuous clothing use included good weather conditions, older age, and more frequent cycling. Factors positively associated with helmet use included bike light use, longer trip distances, hybrid bike type, not using alcohol in the 6 hours prior to the trip, female sex, older age, higher income, and higher education. CONCLUSIONS: In two of Canada’s largest cities, helmets were the most widely used safety equipment. Measures to increase use of visibility aids on both daytime and night-time cycling trips may help prevent crashes. BioMed Central 2012-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3490930/ /pubmed/22966752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-765 Text en Copyright ©2012 Teschke et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Teschke, Kay
Brubacher, Jeff R
Friedman, Steven M
Cripton, Peter A
Harris, M Anne
Reynolds, Conor CO
Shen, Hui
Monro, Melody
Hunte, Garth
Chipman, Mary
Cusimano, Michael D
Lea, Nancy Smith
Babul, Shelina
Winters, Meghan
Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists: a cross-sectional study
title Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists: a cross-sectional study
title_full Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists: a cross-sectional study
title_short Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists: a cross-sectional study
title_sort personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22966752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-765
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