Improving passenger safety among youth: Developing a web-based strategy: Final report to NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust
Year: 2012
Type: report
Abstract: The project sought to develop web-based program material for senior school students to encourage young people to engage in protective and intervening strategies that would promote both passenger and young driver safety. The research involved three stages. Firstly, a literature review was undertaken examining web-based program design for young persons’ health promotion and systematically examining the protective strategy and intervening literature. In addition initial focus groups were held (stage 2) to examine the way in which young people currently operationalize and undertake protective and intervening behaviours around the road and how young people respond to, and favour, web material. The construction process of a web-based program was undertaken with scenarios and associated interactive component activities. A final stage of this report overviews the user-centred and participatory design framework used to examine both potential target students’ and teachers’ perceptions of the web-based material designed for this research. The research found that web-based programs are well used and can demonstrate effectiveness in health promotion. The literature showed that young people engage with the Internet and particularly respond well to interactive or gaming material. The systematic literature review undertaken of protective strategies found that young adult research in the area typically focuses on college students and intervening in drink driving contexts. Importantly however there were key factors; including confidence to intervene, perceptions of seriousness of the context, the relationship and closeness of friendship and expectations for protective behaviour within friendships that facilitated the reported likelihood of intervening. Such factors were consistent with the senior students’ reports in Stage 2 of the research. These students however also acknowledged other contexts in which intervening could occur; eg speeding and using a mobile phone while driving and acknowledged that the emotional state of the potential driver may be a critical factor in determining likelihood of intervening...
Authors: Rebekah Chapman, Lisa Buckley, Mary C. Sheehan
Language: English
Topic: Traffic and Road Safety
Subfield: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2607718626