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Still careless: findings from a cross-sectional study of young pedestrians’ risky road crossing behaviors
BACKGROUND: Pedestrian-vehicle collision is one of the most common traffic injuries worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the determinants of pedestrians’ road crossing beliefs and behaviors in potentially risky situations using the Theory of Planned Behavior among Iranian young adults. METHODS...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7236260/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32467756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-020-00421-2 |
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author | Hashemiparast, Mina Sharma, Manoj Asghari Jafarabadi, Mohammad Hosseini, Zahra |
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description | BACKGROUND: Pedestrian-vehicle collision is one of the most common traffic injuries worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the determinants of pedestrians’ road crossing beliefs and behaviors in potentially risky situations using the Theory of Planned Behavior among Iranian young adults. METHODS: This was a population-based study on a sample of 562 young adults aged 18 to 25 years living in Tehran, Iran. Data were collected by using a self-administered validated questionnaire including constructs of the theory of planned behavior and items of perceived risk and severity. The data were analyzed using independent t-test, analysis of covariance and multivariate analysis of variance. RESULTS: From all the respondents, 17.8% reported that they had previous experience of vehicle-collision. Among the participants, those who had previous experience of vehicle-collision reported less safety behaviors in crossing the road than those who had not experience an accident. It was found significant differences between participants with and without a history of vehicle-collision for perceived risk (mean difference, adjusted multivariate P-value: − 5.77, 0.027) and perceived severity (− 6.08, 0.003), attitude toward traffic regulations (− 6.34, 0.006), attitude toward behavior (− 7.56, 0.005), perceived behavioral control (− 5.20, 0.018), behavioral intention (− 5.35, 0.046) and road crossing behavior in potentially risky situations (− 5.37, 0.004). CONCLUSIONS: Previous unpleasant experience of vehicle-collision is not the only determinant of self-protective behaviors in road- crossing which indicate the role of cognitive and motivational factors such as, subjective norms, attitudes towards risk, feelings of invulnerability in case of facing with vehicle collision. |
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spelling | pubmed-72362602020-05-27 Still careless: findings from a cross-sectional study of young pedestrians’ risky road crossing behaviors Hashemiparast, Mina Sharma, Manoj Asghari Jafarabadi, Mohammad Hosseini, Zahra Arch Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Pedestrian-vehicle collision is one of the most common traffic injuries worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the determinants of pedestrians’ road crossing beliefs and behaviors in potentially risky situations using the Theory of Planned Behavior among Iranian young adults. METHODS: This was a population-based study on a sample of 562 young adults aged 18 to 25 years living in Tehran, Iran. Data were collected by using a self-administered validated questionnaire including constructs of the theory of planned behavior and items of perceived risk and severity. The data were analyzed using independent t-test, analysis of covariance and multivariate analysis of variance. RESULTS: From all the respondents, 17.8% reported that they had previous experience of vehicle-collision. Among the participants, those who had previous experience of vehicle-collision reported less safety behaviors in crossing the road than those who had not experience an accident. It was found significant differences between participants with and without a history of vehicle-collision for perceived risk (mean difference, adjusted multivariate P-value: − 5.77, 0.027) and perceived severity (− 6.08, 0.003), attitude toward traffic regulations (− 6.34, 0.006), attitude toward behavior (− 7.56, 0.005), perceived behavioral control (− 5.20, 0.018), behavioral intention (− 5.35, 0.046) and road crossing behavior in potentially risky situations (− 5.37, 0.004). CONCLUSIONS: Previous unpleasant experience of vehicle-collision is not the only determinant of self-protective behaviors in road- crossing which indicate the role of cognitive and motivational factors such as, subjective norms, attitudes towards risk, feelings of invulnerability in case of facing with vehicle collision. BioMed Central 2020-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7236260/ /pubmed/32467756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-020-00421-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Hashemiparast, Mina Sharma, Manoj Asghari Jafarabadi, Mohammad Hosseini, Zahra Still careless: findings from a cross-sectional study of young pedestrians’ risky road crossing behaviors |
title | Still careless: findings from a cross-sectional study of young pedestrians’ risky road crossing behaviors |
title_full | Still careless: findings from a cross-sectional study of young pedestrians’ risky road crossing behaviors |
title_fullStr | Still careless: findings from a cross-sectional study of young pedestrians’ risky road crossing behaviors |
title_full_unstemmed | Still careless: findings from a cross-sectional study of young pedestrians’ risky road crossing behaviors |
title_short | Still careless: findings from a cross-sectional study of young pedestrians’ risky road crossing behaviors |
title_sort | still careless: findings from a cross-sectional study of young pedestrians’ risky road crossing behaviors |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7236260/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32467756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-020-00421-2 |
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