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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Safety belt"”.
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Experimental analysis of specific auditory-light safety belt reminder systems and safety belt behavior: "prods" or "prompts"
Safety belt reminder systems are ubiquitously present in most, if not alI automobiles sold in the United States. Past research has found that the effectiveness of these reminder systems have shown minimal social benefit in the effort to increase safety belt use. The current investigation was …
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Teenage compliance to Texas safety belt law
… to observe non-compliance of the mandatory seat belt law and to determine if there were behavioral changes as a result of an educational program, as well as, a threat of a fine. Data were collected 3 times: prior to the treatment, at the conclusion of the treatment, and the day following the …
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Increasing children's safety belt use: intrinsic versus extrinsic motivators
… in applied psychology for increasing vehicle safety belt use by children. Five different intervention activities applied either extrinsic rewards, or focused on the development of intrinsic motivation (e.g., personal commitment, awareness, active participation). The subjects were 138 children, …
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Increasing safety belt usage through personal commitment: a church-based pledge card program
A pledge card program designed to motivate safety belt use was implemented at a Baptist church in Blacksburg, Virginia. The intervention consisted of an educational insert and pledge card which were included in church bulletins on one Sunday morning. The insert described the risk of injury on …
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Safety belt promotion at community swimming pools: effects of policy, rewards, prompts, and education
Data on safety belt use were collected at two swimming pools over three consecutive summers. The impact of several variables upon safety belt use was examined. First, an Intervention Program (IP) was designed, comprised of Promotional, Reward, and Feedback components. Second, an Awareness/Education …
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A university-based incentive program: motivating large-scale safety belt use through indigeneous personnel
… demonstrated beneficial impact of incentives for safety belt promotion in a variety of environmental settings and has prompted the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to promote and support community wide incentive programs for motivating safety belt use nationwide. Although …
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Evaluation of a large scale intervention project to increase safety belt use in eight Virginia communities
… Department of Motor Vehicles to increase safety belt use in eight communities (cities, towns, and counties) throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia was evaluated. The police or sheriff's department in each community conducted either one, two, or three repeated applications (waves) of …
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Web-Based Assessment and Brief Motivational Intervention to Increase Safety-Belt Use on a University Campus
While safety-belt use markedly reduces morbidity and mortality, many young adults in the U.S. do not buckle-up 100% of the time. Following a series of community-level interventions on a university campus, this dissertation project focused on promoting individual-level safety-belt use. More …
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Motivating safety belt use at a hospital setting: towards an effective balance between extrinsic incentives and intrinsic commitment
… research on attempts to motivate large-scale safety belt use has documented a number of shortcoming, including limited long-term evaluation data, excessive costs, short-lived intervention effects, and program delivery by outside agencies rather than indigenous personnel. The present study …
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Parametric design constraints management using the design structure matrix : creation of an electronic catalog for a safety belt system
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, February 2000.
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The A.R.K. Project: A Grassroots, Student-Led, Multiple-Component Intervention to Increase Driver Safety-Belt Use on a University Campus
… the VT campus, in an attempt to increase driver safety-belt use. Observations on VT students' safety-belt use and other safety-related behaviors (i.e., turn-signal use and cell-phone use) were made during pre-intervention, intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up study phases and compared …
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Prompting safety-belt use with a positive versus negative prompt: Comparative impact on the target behavior and relevant body language
… efficacy of two behavioral prompts in increasing safety-belt use. Two approaches were used in both studies. The first approach involved showing a sign with the message, "Please Buckle Up, I Care" to unbuckled drivers leaving a parking lot; the second involved displaying the nationwide slogan …
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Driving safety and safety engineering: exploring risk compensation
… in driving can occur due to the use of safety belts. Risk compensation theories hypothesize that if individuals wear safety belts, they will . drive in a more risky manner than if they do not wear safety belts due to the increased perception of safety they provide. Although much of the …
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Community-based feedback to promote road safety
… the effects of community-based feedback on the safety belt use of drivers in a small community in Southwest Virginia, while drivers on an intersecting highway served as a control group. An AB design was used to test the effects of the feedback on belt use. Turn signal use and right and left hand …
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Validity of Self-Reported Data on Seat Belt Use: The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
… According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), someone in America is injured in a motor vehicle crash every 14 seconds and someone is killed every 12 minutes (as cited in Ad Council, 2003). It is widely accepted that increased use of safety belts and reductions in …
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Development of industry-based strategies for motivating seat-belt usage among blue-collar workers
Research has shown that seat belt wearing among white-collar workers can be motivated through the use of incentives. Incentive strategies have not, however, been effective among blue-collar workers for several reasons: (1) lack of identification with the programs; (2) lack of influence on …
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Health Risk Behaviors in Rural Adolescents at Two High Schools Located in One Kentucky County
… (p <05) for some variables (rarely used a safety belt, carried a weapon during the 30 days preceding the survey, ever had sexual intercourse, not used a condom at last sexual intercourse, and eaten > 2 servings cookies, donuts, pies the day preceding the survey) and not statistically …