Factors Related to Motorcycle Traffic Accidents among University Students in Lampang Province
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A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine factors related to accident prevention behavior and factors influencing motorcycle accidents university students in Lampang Province. 240 participants included 85 cases and 155 controls. Data was collected by questionnaire, including demographic information, knowledge, awareness, social support, personal driving behavior, and number of traffic accidents. Sampling used the program named Statulator with Two sample comparison of proportion. Questionaires were quality checked, including content validation by experts and validated by KR-20. Reliability was calculated by measuring internal consistency in term of Cronbach’s alpha method. Data was analyzed by average, standard deviation, percent, chi-square, and regression.
The study found that 1) predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors associated with motorcycle accident preventive behavior included accident prevention awareness (p-value =.028), motorcycle equipment (p-value =.002), and annual compulsory motor insurance and vehicle tax (p-value = .037), 2) also faculty (p-value = .010), driving experience (p-value = .004) were the factors related to preventive behavior, and 3) factors associated with motorcycle accidents included student status aged over 20 (95%CI = 1.17-3.77), participants in their second (95%CI=2.00-10.72) and third study years (95%CI=1.81-10.02), driving experience (95%CI=1.45-10.55), long driving stints (95%CI=1.40-5.72), and motorcycle service life over five years (95%CI=1.17-3.64).
These findings suggest that physical and visibility factors pose risks and plans should be formulated to resolve visibility-related issues. Training to educate drivers how to avoid possible dangers would be beneficial. Finally, annual motorcycle inspections are recommended.
Government and community participation should be promoted to impose risk-reduction policies.
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