Citation

Wermert AM, Mehl A, Opalek JM, Shaffer LE. J. Trauma Nurs. 2012; 19(2): 94-101.

Affiliation

Trauma Program, Grant Medical Center (Ms Wermert and Dr Opalek); Center for Injury Research and Policy, Nationwide Children's Hospital, work completed at Columbus Public Health (Ms Mehl); and OhioHealth Research and Innovations Institute (Dr Shaffer), Columbus, Ohio.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Society of Trauma Nurses)

DOI

10.1097/JTN.0b013e318256296a

PMID

22673076

Abstract

Compared with other age groups, teenagers have the lowest rate of safety belt use. We sought to determine whether an ongoing, student-led initiative would be effective in increasing safety belt use among high school students compared with another school in which the intervention did not take place. At the intervention school, there was a statistically significant increase of 15% in observed safety belt use and evidence of increased knowledge regarding proper safety belt use. High schools can be effective in changing the traffic safety behaviors of its students.

Language: en