Motorcycle Riding Safety Awareness among Undergraduate Public Health Students

Abstract

The purpose of this cross-sectional research was to study motorcycle riding safety awareness and to compare personal factors that affected motorcycle riding safety awareness.  The samples were students of undergraduate public health students in the central region. There were 399 samples. The research instrument was a questionnaire with 2 parts: personal factors and motorcycle riding safety awareness. The questionnaire had the index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) between 0.80 - 1.00 and Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient of 0.95. The test for differences in motorcycle riding safety awareness between samples who had different personal factors using one-way, two-way and three-way ANOVA. The results revealed that the overall motorcycle riding safety awareness was at a medium level (M =3.31, S.D.=0.78) and 3 items that had the highest score were 1) to follow the traffic rules strictly (M =4.73, S.D.=0.53), 2) wear personal protective equipment for the motorcycle riding (M =4.70, S.D.=0.58)  and 3) had the driving’s license (M =4.58, S.D.=0.82). Factors that significantly affected the motorcycle riding safety awareness (p- value< 0.05) were as follows: gender, frequency of the motorcycle riding, and experience accident from the motorcycle riding. This study to improve the training curriculum for the development of a training curriculum and enhancing the motorcycle riding safety consciousness.