dc.contributor.author | Nakate, Jacqueline Sylivia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-05-03T12:14:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-05-03T12:14:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-10 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/10506 | |
dc.description | A Research Dissertation Submitted to Makerere University School of Public Health in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Bachelors of Environmental Health Science | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Road traffic accident is increasing and becoming public health burden worldwide.
About 1.24 million people die each year on the world's roads and between 20 and 50 million
sustain nonfatal injuries. Road traffic injuries are so rampant whereby a lot of lives have been
claimed and safety measures that are available have been undermined, not used effectively such
as seat belt use and helmet use. Safety belt use is a neglected road safety measure that can reduce
mortality and morbidity rates due to traffic crashes.
Objective: The study aimed at assessing the knowledge, attitude and practices towards seat belt
use among drivers in the public transport means specifically the taxi drivers. The study focused
on the seat belt usage as a safety measure for all the vehicle occupants.
Methodology: The study employed a cross sectional study design. Data regarding knowledge,
attitude and practice (KAP) was collected using pre-tested questionnaires. A samples size of 325
randomly selected public transport taxi drivers were interviewed. Data from the questionnaires
was entered into computer data base designed using Epi data software and analyzed using Stata
version 13.0. Results were presented in form tables and graphs.
Results: Only 48.3% respondents had worn the seatbelt on the previous day of data collection
though 88.6% had seatbelts in the driver’s seat of their taxis. Taxi drivers were mostly motivated
by increased traffic patrols to wear seatbelts and over 59.7% respondents had good knowledge
and 58.2% had positive attitude towards seatbelt use positive attitude towards seatbelt use.
Conclusion: Three out of five taxi drivers were found knowledgeable and one out two had a
positive attitude towards seatbelt use. In addition, the practice of seatbelt use was less than half. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Makerere University | en_US |
dc.subject | seat belt usage | en_US |
dc.subject | taxi drivers | en_US |
dc.subject | Kampala district | en_US |
dc.subject | Old taxi park | en_US |
dc.subject | Road traffic accidents | en_US |
dc.title | Knowledge, attitude and practices towards seat belt usage among taxi drivers in Kampala old taxi park, Kampala district | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |