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Campaigns and awareness raising strategies in traffic safety — <strong>Deliverable</strong> D-1.17.2 SAMPLE DESCRIPTIONThe sample of effects entered into the CAST database is meant to berepresentative of all safety campaign evaluations carried out in recent times inthe Western world. To enable the reader to make a judgement about this,various characteristics of the sample are described. These should be carefullyconsidered when assessing the general applicability of conclusions frommeta-analysis of this sample. Sample description is based on the variablescollected during data extraction, which are detailed and categorized in Table7.1.7.2.1 REPORTING AND EVALUATIONThe 173 studies passing selection criteria contained 433 different campaigneffects judged as suitable for entry into the CAST database. Different types ofoutcome measure included in the final sample are given in Table 7.2.Table 7.2. Different types of outcome measure reported by the 173 studies identifiedcampaigneffectsselfreportedoutcome measureobservedseatbelt use 133 24 119 14accidents 115 25 114 1attitude 39 0 39speeding 28 21 7risk perception 24 0 24drink-driving 23 4 19recall 23 0 23knowledge 17 0 17driver behaviour towards pedestrian 13 11 2cycle helmet use 4 4 0intervention behaviour 4 0 4intention to behave 4 0 4red light running 2 2 0reflector use 1 1 0booster cushion use 1 0 1estimation that others speed 1 0 1conservation behaviour 1 0 1total 433 276 157Table 7.2 also shows for each group of effects, whether outcome measureswere evaluated by others (i.e. observed) or self-reported by the target group.The outcome measures ‘accidents’, ‘seatbelt use’, ‘speeding’ and ‘driverbehaviour towards pedestrians’ were mostly observed, and are thereforeconsidered more reliable. Drink-driving behaviour, attitudes, risk appreciation,knowledge, intentions and recall were mostly self-reported. While there was asufficient number of effects in most groups for meta-analysis based onoutcome measure, the only outcome measures for which there were enough24 Includes 14 effects for child restraint use25 The GADGET and INFOEFFEKT projects summarized a total of 72 and 86 effects of road safetycampaigns on accidents, respectively.57

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