@article{ref1,
title="Risk perception, road behavior, and pedestrian injury among adolescent students in Kathmandu, Nepal",
journal="Injury prevention",
year="2007",
author="Poudel-Tandukar, Kalpana and Nakahara, Shinji and Ichikawa, M. and Poudel, Krishna C. and Jimba, Masamine",
volume="13",
number="4",
pages="258-263",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between the perceived safety of specified road behaviors, self-described road behaviors, and pedestrian injury among adolescent students in Kathmandu, Nepal. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1557 adolescents in grades 6-8 across 14 schools in Kathmandu using a self-administered questionnaire in 2003. A multiple logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the data. RESULTS: Adolescents were more likely to suffer from pedestrian injury when they did not always &quot;wait for green signals to cross the road&quot;. There were no significant associations between road behaviors such as &quot;looking both ways along the road before crossing&quot; or &quot;playing in the road or sidewalks&quot; and pedestrian injury. Adolescents who &quot;perceived it safe to cross the road from any point&quot; or &quot;did not perceive it to be safer to cross the road at a zebra crossing&quot; were less likely to &quot;look both ways&quot; or &quot;wait for green signals&quot; before crossing the road. Adolescents who &quot;perceived it to be safe to play in the road&quot; were more likely to play in the road or sidewalk. Similarly, this study showed a positive association between road safety education and adolescents' road crossing behaviors. CONCLUSION: Adolescents' road behaviors, except for compliance with green signals, were not significantly associated with pedestrian injury. This suggests that a behavioral approach without modification of the traffic environment (such as provision of crossing signals) might not effectively prevent the occurrence of pedestrian injury in developing countries with poor traffic conditions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-8047",
doi="10.1136/ip.2006.014662",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2006.014662"
}