Johnson O E, Adebayo A M
Department of Community Health, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo, Nigeria.
Ghana Med J. 2011 Sep;45(3):89-96.
Compliance with road safety signs is important in the reduction of motorcycle accidents. The aim of this study was to implement health education intervention and assess its impact on the knowledge of and compliance with road safety signs among commercial motorcyclists in Uyo, Southern Nigeria.
This was an intervention study among motorcyclists in Uyo, Southern Nigeria, with a control group from a similar town. The instrument of data collection was a semi-structured interviewer administered questionnaire. Subjects were selected through multistage sampling method. Baseline data on compliance to road safety signs was collected from both groups. Motorcyclists in the intervention group were given education on the importance of compliance to road safety signs. Data was subsequently collected from both groups 3 months post intervention and analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 11.
A total of 200 respondents participated in the study, 100 from each group. Following intervention, respondents with good knowledge score increased from 21% at baseline to 82% at 3 months post intervention in the intervention group (p<0.05) and from 19% to 21% in the control group. Compliance score in the intervention group increased from 15% to 70% (p<0.05) and from 12% to 18% in the control group.
A significant increase in compliance to road safety signs was recorded among motorcyclists in the intervention group after safety education. All motorcyclists should therefore be given education on road safety signs as this will improve compliance and lead to safer road use among them.
遵守道路安全标志对于减少摩托车事故至关重要。本研究的目的是实施健康教育干预，并评估其对尼日利亚南部乌约市商业摩托车骑手道路安全标志知识及遵守情况的影响。
这是一项针对尼日利亚南部乌约市摩托车骑手的干预性研究，对照组来自一个类似的城镇。数据收集工具是一份由访谈者管理的半结构化问卷。通过多阶段抽样方法选取研究对象。从两组收集关于遵守道路安全标志的基线数据。对干预组的摩托车骑手进行关于遵守道路安全标志重要性的教育。随后在干预3个月后从两组收集数据，并使用社会科学统计软件包第11版进行分析。
共有200名受访者参与研究，每组100人。干预后，干预组中知识得分良好的受访者从基线时的21%增至干预后3个月时的82%（p<0.05），而对照组从19%增至21%。干预组的遵守得分从15%增至70%（p<0.05），对照组从12%增至18%。
安全教育后，干预组摩托车骑手对道路安全标志的遵守情况显著增加。因此，所有摩托车骑手都应接受道路安全标志教育，因为这将提高遵守程度，并使他们的道路使用更安全。
