Attitude and behavior of medical and dental students towards driving in Punjab province of India

Abstract

Road traffic accidents are increasing with the increase in a number of vehicles and are likely to become one of the leading causes of death in the near future. This study has been done with the hypothesis that attitudes and behaviors towards driving can be predictors of road traffic accidents and losses due to accidents can be decreased if we control and modify the attitude and behavior of the drivers and the best time to modify is when the drivers are young. In this study, 225 medical and dental students in the age group of 17-22 years participated and it was observed that many of them were having dangerous driving behavior. In order to modify the attitude and behavior after knowing what is wrong in behavior and attitude of the young population who are driving or likely to drive shortly so that we can modify their behaviors according to the Theory of Planned Behavior.