Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Traffic Inj Prev. 2011 Oct;12(5):443-50. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2011.602148.
This study examined the prevalence and correlates of street racing among adolescents derived from the 2009 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey (OSDUHS), an epidemiological survey of students in Ontario, Canada.
The key response variable, self-reported street racing in past year, was examined in relation to grade level, rural/urban, school marks, cannabis use, drinking and driving, cannabis use and driving, and property, physical, drugs, and weapons delinquencies. All survey estimates were weighted, and variance and statistical tests were corrected for the complex sampling design.
Of the 3053 9th- to 12th-graders (66% response rate), 5.6 percent of high-schoolers (an estimated 42,000 in the province) and (20.4% of grade 11 and 12 students with an advanced-level or full license) reported driving a car, truck, or sport utility vehicle (SUV) in a street race in the 12 months before the survey. Logistic regression analysis of the advanced-level or fully licensed students in grades 11 and 12 found that males compared to females and students in grade 11 compared to students in grade 12 had significantly higher adjusted odds of street racing. Supportive of problem behavior theory, students who reported property and drug delinquencies compared to students not engaging in these delinquencies also had significantly higher adjusted odds of street racing.
This first population-based study in North America suggested that the prevalence of street racing at 1 in 5 of advanced or fully licensed high-schoolers in grades 11 and 12 poses significant public health concerns, especially related to the potential for unintentional injury.
本研究通过 2009 年安大略省学生毒品使用和健康调查（OSDUHS），对加拿大安大略省学生的流行病学调查，考察青少年街头赛车的流行率及其相关因素。
关键的因变量是过去一年的自我报告街头赛车行为，将其与年级、城乡、学校成绩、大麻使用、酒后驾车、大麻使用和酒后驾车、财产、身体、毒品和武器犯罪联系起来进行考察。所有调查估计值均进行了加权，方差和统计检验均针对复杂的抽样设计进行了修正。
在接受调查的 3053 名 9 至 12 年级学生中（回应率为 66%），5.6%的高中生（估计全省有 42000 人）和（11 年级和 12 年级有高级或完整驾照的学生中有 20.4%）报告在调查前的 12 个月内驾驶过汽车、卡车或运动型多用途车（SUV）参加街头赛车。对 11 年级和 12 年级有高级或完整驾照的学生进行逻辑回归分析发现，与女性相比，男性和 11 年级的学生比 12 年级的学生发生街头赛车的调整后优势比更高。支持问题行为理论，与未从事这些犯罪行为的学生相比，报告财产和毒品犯罪的学生发生街头赛车的调整后优势比也更高。
这是北美首次基于人群的研究表明，11 年级和 12 年级高级或完全有照的高中生中，有 1/5 的人参与街头赛车，这对公共健康构成了重大威胁，尤其是与意外伤害的潜在风险有关。
