An evaluation of the Safe Drive Stay Alive road safety presentation ...

Mean score (Max: 7)49scale from 1 to 7, and an overall perceived behavioural control score was calculatedby averaging ratings from the three individual items. A higher score indicated agreater perceived control over future driving behaviour.There was a significant change in overall perceived behavioural control across thethree surveys. There was significant increase in PBC from before, to immediatelyafter the SDSA presentation, but this effect disappeared five months later. There wasalso a moderate gender effect, with females reporting greater perceived behaviouralcontrol than males across all three surveys, but no interaction between time andgender (data is presented in Figure 4).7654321Pre-SDSA Post-SDSA 5 month followupTimeMaleFemaleFigure 4Male and female ratings of perceived behavioural control before, after,and five months after the SDSA presentation4.5 SeatbeltsOverall there was no significant change in attitudes to seatbelt wearing before, afteror five months after the SDSA presentations (summary statistics are detailed inAppendix D). Taking the three individual items, there was no change in thefrequency with which participants reported they would wear a seatbelt when driving,when as a front seat passenger, and when as a rear seat passenger. There was onlyone significant difference between male and female ratings, with females ratingthemselves as wearing a seatbelt when they become a driver more frequently thanmales. However it should be noted that even before attending the SDSA both male