Knowledge attitude and practice of road traffic regulation among villa international school students in Male’

Abstract

Title: knowledge, attitude and practice of road traffic regulation among villa international high school student in Male’ Author: Fathimath Shabana Study Design: A community- based descriptive cross-sectional study done using both qualitative and quantitative data to find out the knowledge, attitude and practice of the student in villa international high school grade 11 and 12. Methods: Data was collected using an administered questioner which was issued to students. The descriptive and statistical analysis was done using SPSS. Result: From the total number of 136 students who were randomly selected majority of the students are at the age of 18 years. 56% of the students were studying in grade 12. Among them majority of the students are 46. 3 % travel as passengers. 94% of the participants know regulations and 64% recognize the road traffic regulation of Maldives, 97.1 % of the participant believes everyone should follow rules and regulation.87.5% of the participants follows the road sign and signals, 83.1% use zebra cross while crossing. However, 80.1% do not have driving license, 14% of the participants are driving without liquescence, and the participant’s actual driving speed v is more than 30 Km/hours. 98.5% participant saying they will not use helmet and, 84.6% of the participants saying they will not use seatbelt and 74.3% use phone while walking. Conclusion: The study participant had enough knowledge about road traffic regulation and most of them agreed people should follow all the regulations and laws. Majority of the participants believe vehicle roadworthiness is way of reducing accident and almost all the students strongly agreed obeying road traffic light and signals to reduce road traffic accidents. Most of the students do not have driving license.