Skip to main content
Home / American Journal of Health Behavior, Volume 26, Number 4

Seat-belt Use by Trauma Center Employees Before and After a Safety Campaign

Buy Article:

$39.00 + tax (Refund Policy)

Objectives: To determine whether employees of a regional trauma center wore seat belts any more often than did visitors to the medical center and residents of the state. To demonstrate whether an intensive safety campaign would improve seat-belt compliance among trauma center employees. To determine the duration of improvement. Methods: Hospital employees and visitors were observed as they exited the medical center's parking ramps over a 3 month period. Results: After a hospital-wide seat-belt campaign, employee compliance rose by 7.5%, to 81.5% at 14 days, but fell back to preintervention levels at one month (76.7%) and 3 months (77%) after the intervention. Conclusions: An intensive seat-belt safety campaign resulted in only modest and transient improvement in the rate of seat-belt use.

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: 1: Research and Education, Health East Care System, St. Paul, MN. 2: Employee Health Center 3: North Trauma Institute 4: University of Minnesota Medical School, Emergency Department, North Memorial Medical Center, Robbinsdale, MN.

Publication date: 01 July 2002

More about this publication?

  • The American Journal of Health Behavior seeks to improve the quality of life through multidisciplinary health efforts in fostering a better understanding of the multidimensional nature of both individuals and social systems as they relate to health behaviors.

    The Journal aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of personal attributes, personality characteristics, behavior patterns, social structure, and processes on health maintenance, health restoration, and health improvement; to disseminate knowledge of holistic, multidisciplinary approaches to designing and implementing effective health programs; and to showcase health behavior analysis skills that have been proven to affect health improvement and recovery.

  • Editorial Board
  • Information for Authors
  • Submit a Paper
  • Subscribe to this Title
  • Review Board
  • Reprints and Permissions
  • Ingenta Connect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites

Share Content

  • Access Key
  • Free content
  • Partial Free content
  • New content
  • Open access content
  • Partial Open access content
  • Subscribed content
  • Partial Subscribed content
  • Free trial content