Published Paper Details:

Background: A road traffic accident (RTA) is any injury due to crashes originating from, terminating with or involving a vehicle partially or fully on a public road. It is projected that road traffic injuries will move up to the third position by the year 2020 among leading causes of the global disease burden. They are considerable economic losses to victims, their families, and to countries as a whole. Aim and objective: A study was planned to assess the knowledge of road safety among adolescents. and to find out an association between the knowledge of adolescents regarding road safety with selected demographic variables. Material and method: A Quantitative approach and survey design used for this study. The study was conducted on three hundred adolescents of junior colleges. The data gathering technique used was self-reporting and non-probability convenient sampling. Results: The analysis and interpretation revealed that it was observed that there is association between knowledge score of adolescents and the 3 colleges. It was observed that there is association between knowledge score of adolescents and the gender. It was observed that there is association between knowledge score of adolescents and the class in which they are studying. i.e., 11th class and 12th class. Conclusion: The finding of the study showed that, the knowledge regarding road safety among adolescent was good except some adolescent gave the wrong answer. It was also observed that female adolescents gave more correct response than male adolescents. Adolescents are more curious to finding out the correct answers. Many of them would like someone to come and teach them correct concepts of various health related topics. Knowledge of the adolescent was more may be because of the more exposure to social media.