THE STATE OF WASHINGTON YOUTH SEAT BELT AWARENESS PROGRAM: AN EVALUATION OF TWO SEAT BELT TEACHING KITS

The Youth Seat Belt Awareness Program (YSBAP) was designed to increase seat belt usage among second grade students by presenting them with materials from the Adventures of Beltman or Buckle Up Box (BUB) seat belt teaching kits. Second grade classes in 510 elementary grade schools throughout the State of Washington were issued one of the seat belt teaching kits. The 510 schools were randomly divided into treatment or control conditions. Surveys were distributed to the students for their parent(s) to complete. The survey assessed parent-reported seat belt use for their second grader. The assessment of use was conducted prior to (PR), immediately following (P1), and 6 to 10 weeks after (P2) the students were exposed to the seat belt teaching materials. Analysis revealed a significant difference between the urban and rural counties for the control groups' reported usage rates. The urban counties control group usage rate was significantly greater than that of the rural counties control group at each survey phase. In view of these differences, analyses for treatment effects were conducted within county types. For the urban counties only, the BUB group had a reported usage percentage (immediately following presentation of the materials) significantly greater than the control group. For the rural counties, both the Beltman and BUB groups has significantly higher percentages of parent-reported seat belt use than the control groups had. This finding held for both the immediate (P1) and delayed (P2) survey assessment phases.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Pollack, R
  • Swant, F
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 11-24
• Serial:
  • Traffic Safety Evaluation Research Review
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Awareness; Children; Education; Evaluation; Manual safety belts
• Uncontrolled Terms: Treatment programs
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00385145
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-035 783
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 30 1984 12:00AM