@article{ref1,
title="Behaviours of adolescents towards safety measures at school and in traffic and their health beliefs for injuries",
journal="International journal of nursing practice",
year="2020",
author="Kılınç, Eda and Gür, Kamer",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="AIM: The aim of this work is to determine the behaviours of adolescents towards safety measures at school and in traffic and their health beliefs for injuries.   BACKGROUND: Adolescents are more prone to injuries, as they are more willing to try risky health behaviours.   METHODS: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted at high schools in Turkey. The data were collected from high school students based on the self-report method between October 2017 and January 2018. Frequency, percentage, chi-square, t test, and logistic regression were used to analyse the data.   RESULTS: A total of 481 adolescents participated in the study. The response rate is 96.05%. As a result of the research, 12.5% of the adolescents reported that they were injured in traffic and 18.9% of them were injured at school. Adolescents who did not have an accident had higher scores of health beliefs than those who had an accident (p < 0.05). The most important predictors of injury are being male (OR: 2.52, 95% CI [1.19, 53.00]), parents' separation (OR: 2.82, 95% CI [0.98, 8.09]), and not believing that traffic rules were safe (OR: 3.15, 95% CI [1.42, 6.97]).   CONCLUSION: Adolescents have risky behaviours at school and in traffic, and these risk behaviours are related to demographic characteristics and health beliefs. School nurses should plan health belief model-based injury prevention programs.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1322-7114",
doi="10.1111/ijn.12861",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijn.12861"
}