SELECTED FACTORS AFFECTING HELMET USE BEHAVIORS FOR ACCIDENTAL PREVENTION FOLLOWING HEALTH BELIEF MODEL OF STUDENTS AT YALA INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
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The objectives of this correlational study were 1) to explore helmet use behavior for preventing accident from riding a motorcycle of the students of the Institute of Physical Education Yala Campus, 2) to study selected factors affecting helmet use behavior for preventing accident from ridng motorcycle following Health Belief Model among students of the Institute of Physical Education Yala Campus, and 3) to study other factors such as gender, age, and accidental experiences affecting helmet use behavior for preventing accident from riding a motorcycle following Health Belief Model among students of the Institute of Physical Education Yala Campus. The study samples in this research were 330 students in academic year 2014. They were randomly selected using multi-stage random sampling. The data were collected using questionnaires that were constructed by the researcher based on the objectives of the study and applied the Health Belief Model framework. The general information: sex, age, educational level, expenditure received from family per month, and having a motorcycle riding license were analyzed by frequency and percentage. Helmet use behaviors for preventing accident of the students of the Institute of Physical Education, Yala Campus, were performed by frequency percentage, mean ( ) and standard deviation (S.D.). Correlation coefficients were investigated to test the relationships of perceived risk or vulnerability toward accident, perceived severity, and perceived benefits of wearing helmet and perceived barriers of wearing helmets while riding a motorcycle. Finally, stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed to find out the selected factors affecting helmet use behavior for preventing accident from motorcycle riding among students of the Institute of Physical Education Yala Campus.
The results of this study were found that helmet use behavior while riding a motorcycle. The average score of 2.33 was moderate. They have perceived risk or vulnerability at ( = 3.19, SD = 0.44) the good levels, severity ( = 3.68, S.D. = 0.28) at the excellent levels, benefits ( = 3.09, S.D. = 0.50) the good levels and barriers ( = 2.50, S.D. = 0.82) at the not good levels. Perceived barriers, experienced accident, aged less than 18 years old, and perceived severity. All four variables predict of helmet use with the statistical significance of .01 had the regression coefficients (b) of .347, -.347, -.070 and .085, respectively that were statistically significant effects to behaviors of helmet use. These four variables could predict the study
outcome by 71.50 percent. The equation for predicting helmet wearing while riding a motorcycle among students (Y) was = 1.237 + .347 X4 (perceived barriers) +.347 (experienced accident) - .070 (aged under 18 years old) + .085 X2 (perceived severity). The equation of prediction in terms of the standardized score was = 1.162 X4 (perceived barriers) - .575 (experienced accident) -.108 (aged under 18 years old) + .098 (perceived severity)
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