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Safety education of pedestrians for injury prevention

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2002
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Title
Safety education of pedestrians for injury prevention
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2002
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd001531
Pubmed ID
Authors

Olivier Duperrex, Ian Roberts, Frances Bunn

Abstract

Each year about one million people die and about 10 million are seriously injured on the world's roads. Educational measures to teach pedestrians how to cope with the traffic environment are considered to be an essential component of any prevention strategy, and pedestrian education has been recommended in many countries. However, as resources available for road safety are limited, a key question concerns the relative effectiveness of different prevention strategies. To quantify the effectiveness of pedestrian safety education programmes in preventing pedestrian-motor vehicle collisions. We searched the Injuries Group specialised register, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, TRANSPORT, MEDLINE, EMBASE, ERIC, PSYCHLIT, SPECTR, and the WHO database on the Internet. We checked reference lists of relevant reviews and papers and contacted experts in the field. Most database searching was conducted in 1999. Randomised controlled trials of safety education programmes for pedestrians of all ages. One reviewer screened records. Two reviewers independently extracted data and assessed methodological quality of trials. Because of differences in the types of interventions and outcome measures used in the trials, meta-analyses were not carried out. We found 15 randomised-controlled trials of pedestrian safety education programmes, conducted between 1976 and 1997. Methodological quality of the included trials was generally poor. Allocation concealment was adequate in three trials, outcome assessment was blinded in eight, and in most of the studies large numbers of participants were lost to follow-up. Study participants were children in 14 studies and institutionalised adults in one. Eight studies involved the direct education of participants, seven used parents as educators. No trials were conducted in a developing country and there were none of pedestrian safety training in the elderly. None of the included trials assessed the effect of pedestrian safety education on the occurrence of pedestrian injury but six trials assessed the effect on observed behaviour. Some of these trials showed evidence of behavioural change following pedestrian safety education but it is difficult to predict what effect this might have on pedestrian injury risk. Pedestrian safety education can result in improvement in children's knowledge and can change observed road crossing behaviour but whether this reduces the risk of pedestrian motor vehicle collision and injury occurrence is unknown. There is evidence that changes in safety knowledge and observed behaviour decline with time suggesting that safety education must be repeated at regular intervals.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 1 <1%
Kazakhstan 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 180 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 19%
Researcher 26 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 10%
Student > Bachelor 17 9%
Student > Postgraduate 12 6%
Other 36 19%
Unknown 43 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 56 30%
Psychology 21 11%
Social Sciences 15 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 6%
Sports and Recreations 7 4%
Other 26 14%
Unknown 52 28%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 September 2018.
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#2,187,953
of 22,950,943 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#4,682
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Outputs of similar age
#3,359
of 121,433 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#8
of 34 outputs
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