FACTORS INFLUENCING SAFETY-HELMET WEARING BEHAVIORS TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS FROM MOTORCYCLE RIDING OF STUDENTS IN THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION, CHON BURI CAMPUS
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The objectives of this research were 1) to study knowledge pertaining to the usages and laws related to safety helmet, personal belief factors, cues to action, and behaviors in safety helmet wearing to prevent accidents from motorcycle riding; and 2) to study factors affecting behaviors in wearing safety helmet to prevent accidents from motorcycle riding of students in the Institute of Physical Education, Chon Buri Campus.
This study was a cross-sectional survey of 187 undergraduate students, capable of riding motorcycle, in the Institute of Physical Education, Chon Buri Campus. The tools for this research were the developed questionnaires based on the conceptual framework of the Health Belief Model with reliability coefficient of 0.90. Data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, and stepwise multiple regression. All statistical tests were set at the significance level of 0.05.
The results revealed that 1) students in the Institute of Physical Education, Chon Buri Campus attained knowledge on usages and laws pertaining to safety helmet at a high level. The students’ beliefs in overall (five aspects) were rated at a moderate level. They received cues to action at a highest level, and students’ beliefs in the Institute of Physical Education, Chon Buri Campus wore safety-helmet in every time of motorcycle riding and about 35.83 percent were reported at a moderate level. 2) Self-efficacy and barrier in safety-helmet wearing, and information receiving could jointly predict the safety-helmet wearing behaviors at 30.20 percent carrying the statistically significant level of p < .05.
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