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Abstract

ASSESS KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES OF A ROAD SAFETY MEASURES AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN VIEW OF DEVELOPING INFORMATION BOOKLET FROM SELECTED HIGH SCHOOLS

Pradnya Suresh Mhalgi*

ABSTRACT

Road traffic accidents cause considerable economic losses to individuals, their families, and to nations. Children work, play & or live on the road and this exposure along with other risk factors inherent to childhood makes them particularly vulnerable in traffic. The result is millions of fatal or disabling injuries each year. Road traffic accident if it occurs on a road or in a place to which the public have access and it include footpaths and bride ways. Objective: To assess pre-existing knowledge of high-school students regarding road safety measures. To assess reported practices regarding road safety measures of high school students. To develop information booklet regarding road safety measures of high school students. Research methodology: The quantitative approach and cross-sectional descriptive design was used. Were enrolled 52 high school students from selected high schools from 8th and 9th standard with purposive sampling technique was selected. Major findings identify regarding knowledge on road safety measures in high school students 13 (25%) having good knowledge, 27 (51.9 %) students having average knowledge and 12 (23%) having poor knowledge regarding road safety measures. About major findings related to practices on road safety measures 38 (73%) students having good practices, 14 (26.9%) students having average practices regarding road safety measures. No student was having poor practices regarding road safety measures. Conclusion: The high school students may be having pre-exiting knowledge but that may be a constructed one. The findings of present study showed that in spite of giving education through lectures, the high school students may prone to forget the rules and regulations of road traffic and safety measures while crossing roads. The knowledge of high school students is going hand in hand with practices. There were constraints due to Covid-19 pandemic situation, that the investigator could not collect data on offline mode, so for the preset study the data was collected by the virtual mode by the investigator.

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