Open AccessKnowledge regarding prevention of road traffic accidents among the adolescents in a community at Dharan Municipality
Author(s) -
Neela Subba,
Dipty Subba
Publication year - 2014
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2091-1343
DOI - 10.3126/njbs.v4i1.41753
Subject(s) - road traffic accident , traffic accident , road traffic , suicide prevention , environmental health , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , transport engineering , poison control , medicine , engineering , pathology
Descriptive study with the aim to assess knowledge regarding prevention of road traffic accidents was done by administrating self-structured questionnaire among 100 adolescents (between 10-19 years) at Dharan Municipality. Questionnaire includes the information regarding demographic and knowledge about meaning, causes and prevention of road traffic accidents. Among the respondents 55% were male and 45% were female. Driver responsibility and not obeying traffic signals for occurrences of RTA, use of safety seat belts for minimizing Road Traffic Accident, were the most responses provided 85%, 91% and 81% respectively. Overall, only 33.34% had good knowledge regarding prevention of road traffic accidents. The study concludes the need for knowledge about accident prevention.