The attitude of Motorcycle Drivers about Helmet Use Based on Health Belief Model (HBM) in Khomein City, ۲۰۱۰

Background and Objective: Understanding and improving traffic behaviors, especially, the use of helmet is known as a strategy for preventing from road accidents. prevention of road accidents are caused Azsdma The aim of ­the present study was to assess the barriers to helmet use, based on health belief model in Khomein city.   Material and Methods: ­ The subjects of this Cross-­sectional study were ۳۸۴ drivers recruited via convenience sampling.­­The instrument was a research-made questionnaire based on HBM items.­The data related to performance, Perceived susceptibility, Perceived barriers, Perceived severity ­and Perceived benefits were analyzed by­ independent T-test,­Pearson, spearman correlation, chi square and wilcoxon (p≤۰.۰۵).   Results: The barriers to helmet use are sweating, decreased hearing, expensiveness, heaviness, and visual limitation, ­chocking feeling, hairstyle, losing ­the helmet, shyness and time consuming, respectively. ­The rate of helmet use is ۱۶.۲%. ­According to the the subjects, ­education­(۶۱.۴%) paying fines (۲۲.۷%) and confining motorcycles (۱۵.۹%) are effective on wearing helmet.   Conclusion:­ ­ According to the results, we recommend performing proper educational programs about wearing helmet, based­ on HBM,­­ designing new helmet by considering fore mentioned problems and modifying police treatments toward education.

Keywords:

Helmet Use , Health Education , Health Belief Model , Khomein , موتور سیکلت , مدل اعتقاد بهداشتی , کلاه ایمنی , رانندگان