Safety Education on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards Road Traffic Signs and Regulations Among College Students At, Gujarat br

Background: Road traffic injuries occurred more than 1.25 million lives each year and have a huge impact on health. According to World Health Organization, in the South East Asian region India is one of the accounted for 73 percent of these Road traffic accidents. Traffic signs and regulations is most essential part for all person. Any person who takes a driving license and deserve to drive a vehicle should have proper knowledge of traffic signs and regulations. If the signs and regulations of traffic are imitating correctly, the becoming accident are very much reduced. Road traffic injuries are currently estimated to be the eight-leading cause of death across all age groups globally, and are predicted to become the seventh leading cause of death by 2030.So, there is a strong need for giving this safety education regarding road traffic signs and regulations.Aims: The current study is aimed to assess the effectiveness of safety education on knowledge, attitude and practice towards road traffic signs and regulations among those who are studying in college. The researcher wants to scrutinize the positivity through the research result to reduce the road traffic accidents.Objective: To assess the pre-test and post-test knowledge, attitude and practice towards road traffic signs and regulations among college students. To compare the pre-test and post-test knowledge, attitude and practice. To find out the association between the knowledge, attitude and practice towards road traffic signs and regulations with their selected demographic variables.Methodology: Design and Setting Quasi Experimental research design was used and Probability (simple random) sampling method was used to drawn samples. Then after tool validation from various subject experts, all questions were given to the students and inform consent form also has been conducted for data collection from the samples. Prior to data collection written setting permission obtain from Principals of various college, for the data collection researcher were selected colleges at Nadiad city. The total sample size was 100 students. The tool consists of following Section A: Socio-demographic variables. Section B: Knowledge questionnaire related to road traffic signs and regulations. Section C: Likert's attitude scale related to road traffic signs and regulations Section D: Practice checklist related to road traffic signs and regulations.Statistical Analysis: used Inferential and Descriptive statistics applied where, data were analyzed by using SPSS software, and Frequency, percentage, tables etc. were used to represent the statistical data in the tables and graph and figure. Paired-t test was used for assess the significant difference between the pre-test and post-test. Chi-square test was used to assess the significant association between the demographic and level of knowledge, attitude and practice towards road traffic signs and regulation among college students.Results: Data reveals that majoritystudents,41 (41 %) of college students belongs to 18-20 years age group, 33 (33%) belong to 21-23 Years, 26 (26%) belong to 24-26 Years. The most of the samples belongs to the Hindu community 60(60%). The pretest knowledge score of samples was majority 98(98%) in inadequate, 02 (02%) sample had moderate knowledge score. In attitude score,31(31%) samples had moderate attitude, 64(64%) had favorable attitudeand05(05%) had unfavorable attitude. In the practice score of samples, 48(48%) had average practice,52(52%) had good practice. After administration of safety education towards road traffic signs and regulations the posttest knowledge score was majority 42(42%) had adequate knowledge,56 (56%) sample had moderate knowledge. In the attitude score of samples was majority samples had favorable attitude 75(75%) ,20(20%) had moderate attitude and in the practice score of samples was most of the samples had good score 80(80 %)and 20(20%) had average practice score.Conclusion: This study reveals that 98(98%) had inadequate knowledge regarding road traffic signs and regulations. After administration of safety education, 42(42%) had gain adequate knowledge regarding road traffic rules. So, this study is very effective tool for increasing knowledge attitude and practice on traffic sign and regulation and reduce the road traffic accidents. Government should also start to give the safety education to the college students for the reduce the chances of road traffic accidents.