Abstract
Road Traffic safety and Traffic rules refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured which are found to be higher in young adults which is directly or indirectly associated with level of awareness of an individual. This study aimed to find out the awareness on traffic rules and safety measures among Bachelor level students. A descriptive cross- sectional study was conducted among randomly selected 250 bachelor level students from selected colleges of Bharatpur, Chitwan that used structured questionnaire administered by researchers for collecting the data. Obtained data were analyzed in Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20, using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result of this study showed that more than half (59.6%) of the students had adequate level of awareness regarding traffic rules and safety measures. Statistically significant association was found between awareness regarding Traffic rules and Safety measures with sex, personal experience/involvement in RTA and educational experience or training regarding RTA/Traffic rules/Road safety measures. It is concluded that nearly half of the students have inadequate awareness regarding road traffic rules and safety measures. Awareness is the major contributing factor for RTA prevention. Hence, all the stake holders, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, local government bodies, various government and private colleges need to expand further awareness programmes regarding traffic rules and safety measures to prevent the morbidity and mortality due to the accidents.
Highlights
A Road Traffic Accident (RTA) is any injury due to crashes originating from, terminating with, or involving a vehicle partially or fully on a public road (Kharde et al, 2018)
The aim of this study is to find out the level of awareness on Traffic rules and Safety measures among bachelor level students in selected colleges of Bharatpur, Chitwan
This study had concluded that the experience/ training regarding Traffic rules and Safety measures had significant relationship and no relationship of father's and mother's education with awareness regarding Traffic rules and Safety measures which is consistent as well as contradictory with the findings of study conducted among Secondary School Students in Jaipur, Rajasthan (Singh, 2018) which revealed that the awareness and practice regarding road safety rules had significant relationship with the source of information of secondary school students
Summary
A Road Traffic Accident (RTA) is any injury due to crashes originating from, terminating with, or involving a vehicle partially or fully on a public road (Kharde et al, 2018). Every year the lives of approximately 1.35 million people are cut short globally as a result of a road traffic crash making it the fourth leading cause of death (WHO, 2018). These accidents are higher in young adults (WHO, 2018) and highest among people between 15 to 40 years of age in Nepal (Choulagai et al, 2015). According to Gopalakrishnan (2012) injury and deaths due to road traffic accidents (RTA) are a major public health problem in developing countries where more than 85% of all deaths and 90% of disability adjusted life years were lost from road traffic injuries.
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