Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland (CARRS-Q), 130 Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland 4059, Australia.
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland (CARRS-Q), 130 Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland 4059, Australia.
J Safety Res. 2023 Jun;85:429-435. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2023.04.010. Epub 2023 Apr 27.
In Australia, between 2017-2021, 16% of quad bike fatalities involved children. Trauma statistics highlight that public awareness of the risks associated with children driving quads is required. Consistent with the Step approach to Message Design and Testing (SatMDT) and, in particular, Steps 1 and 2, this study sought to identify critical beliefs influencing parental intentions to allow their children to drive a quad bike and develop message content. The critical beliefs analysis was based on eliciting the Theory of Planned Behavior's (TPB) behavioral, normative, and control beliefs.
An online survey was distributed via parenting blogs, social media posts, and snowballing of the researchers' network list. Parents who participated (N = 71; 53F, 18 M), were aged between 25-57 years (M = 40.96, SD = 6.98), had at least one child aged between 3 to 16 years, and currently resided in Australia.
The critical beliefs analysis identified four critical beliefs that significantly predicted parental intentions to allow their child to drive a quad bike. These beliefs included a behavioral belief (the perceived advantage that allowing their child to drive a quad bike would enable tasks to be completed), two normative beliefs (the perception that one's parents and partner would likely approve of allowing their child to drive a quad bike), and one control belief (a perceived barrier to allowing one's child to drive a quad that was associated with being aware of an increasing cultural concern around the safety of quad bikes).
Findings contribute to insights regarding parental beliefs underpinning their intention to allow their child to drive a quad bike, an area previously lacking in research evidence.
With child-use posing a high-risk activity for children, this study provides an important contribution that may help to inform future safety messaging targeting children's use of quad bikes.
在澳大利亚，2017 年至 2021 年间，16%的四轮摩托车死亡事故涉及儿童。创伤统计数据强调，需要提高公众对儿童驾驶四轮摩托车相关风险的认识。本研究遵循消息设计和测试的步骤方法（SatMDT），特别是步骤 1 和 2，旨在确定影响父母允许孩子驾驶四轮摩托车的意图的关键信念，并开发信息内容。关键信念分析基于引出计划行为理论（TPB）的行为、规范和控制信念。
通过育儿博客、社交媒体帖子和研究人员网络列表的滚雪球方式发布了在线调查。参与调查的父母（N=71；53F，18M）年龄在 25-57 岁之间（M=40.96，SD=6.98），至少有一个 3 至 16 岁的孩子，目前居住在澳大利亚。
关键信念分析确定了四个关键信念，这些信念显著预测了父母允许孩子驾驶四轮摩托车的意图。这些信念包括一个行为信念（允许孩子驾驶四轮摩托车会使任务完成的优势感知）、两个规范信念（感知到自己的父母和伴侣可能会允许孩子驾驶四轮摩托车）和一个控制信念（与意识到围绕四轮摩托车安全的文化担忧增加相关的允许孩子驾驶四轮摩托车的障碍感知）。
这些发现有助于深入了解父母允许孩子驾驶四轮摩托车的意图背后的信念，这是以前缺乏研究证据的领域。
由于儿童使用四轮摩托车是一项高风险活动，因此本研究提供了一个重要的贡献，可能有助于为未来针对儿童使用四轮摩托车的安全信息传递提供信息。
