Qualitative study to explore stakeholder perceptions related to road safety in Hyderabad, India

Tetali, Shailaja; Lakshmi, Josyula K.; Gupta, Shivam; Gururaj, Gopalkrishna; Wadhwaniya, Shirin; Hyder, Adnan A.

doi:10.1016/s0020-1383(13)70208-0

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“…In a previous study to inform governmental and non-governmental organization action, Tetali et al (2013) elicited local perspective on drunk driving and helmet use in the city of Hyderabad. Participants in the study who included government officials, subject matter experts, road traffic injury victims, medical/nursing personnel and taxi drivers, endorsed the importance of personal responsibility for road safety.…”

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“…One qualitative study including 15 in-depth interviews with government officials, subject matter experts and traffic injury victims and four focus groups with physicians, nurses and drivers was conducted in Hyderabad, India (Tetali et al, 2013). This study identified key issues regarding inadequate road traffic regulation and enforcement, drivers’ lack of knowledge, poor engagement of policy makers in injury prevention efforts and dilapidated infrastructure as the primary threats to road safety.…”

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Road safety perspectives among employees of a multinational corporation in urban India: local context for global injury prevention

Jacoby

Winston

Richmond

2017

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

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In rapidly developing economies, like urban India, where road traffic injury rates are among the world’s highest, the corporate workplace offers a non-traditional venue for road safety interventions. In partnership with a major multinational corporation with a large Indian workforce, this study aimed to elicit local employee perspectives on road safety to inform a global corporate health platform. The safety attitudes and behaviors of 75 employees were collected through self-report survey and focus groups in the multinational corporation offices in Bangalore and Pune. Analysis of these data uncovered incongruity between employee knowledge of safety strategies and their enacted safety behaviors and identified local preference for interventions and policy-level actions. The methods modeled by this study offer a straightforward approach for eliciting employee perspective for local road safety interventions that fit within a global strategy to improve employee health. Study findings suggest that multinational corporations can employ a range of strategies to improve the road traffic safety of their employees in settings like urban India including: implementing corporate traffic safety policy, making local infrastructure changes to improve road and traffic conditions, advocating for road safety with government partners and providing employees with education and access to safety equipment and safe transportation options.

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Road safety perspectives among employees of a multinational corporation in urban India: local context for global injury prevention

Jacoby

Winston

Richmond

2017

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

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“…A similar study carried out in the city of Hyderabad elicited factors such as inadequate traffic laws, gaps in enforcement, lack of awareness, lack of political will, poor road engineering, and high-risk road users as threats to road safety. 4 In the present study use of cell phone has been identified as one of the reasons for RTA. A number of studies regarding above-stated reasons such as over speeding, helmet use behaviour, phone use while driving and pedestrian behaviour have reported the same.…”

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Perception on Road Traffic Injuries and Safety in New Delhi: A Qualitative Study among Victims, their Attendants and General Public

Tripathi

Kaur

Aparnavi

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Introduction: Road Traffic Injuries (RTI) are one of the threats to public health and development globally and contribute to causing deaths, disabilities, grief, loss of productivity and material damages. Hence, enquiries on why road traffic injuries are increasing in number and how they can be controlled are to be made. Objective: To understand the perceptions of victims, their attendants and general public on road traffic injuries and safety. Methodology: A study was carried out among adult victims of RTI admitted in a tertiary care hospital, their attendants and general public living in an urban settlement in New Delhi. Qualitative data on perspectives about road traffic injuries were collected by focus group discussions (FGDs) and data was analysed. Result: A total of 5 FGDs were conducted involving 32 participants, aged 18-92 years. Apart from non-human factors such as poor road infrastructure and road congestion; distracted driving, urgency and excitement in behaviour, aggression and carelessness in attitude, emerged as major reasons for road traffic injuries. Conclusion: The study reinforced that in addition to road traffic environments, changes in attitudes and behaviour especially in the young require a combined effort from the parents, schools and media and novel ideas should be used to bring behavioural change especially in the youth.

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“…Road safety in BRICS needs to be improved through investment in interventions targeted at the key risk factors and collection of more reliable data to establish baseline values and track temporal changes in more detail. [22][23][24][25] There needs to be regular, large-scale systematic monitoring of the factors that influence road safety. This would then allow the cost-effectiveness of interventions for the improvement of road safety to be rigorously assessed and any temporal changes in road safety to be detected rapidly.…”

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BRICS: opportunities to improve road safety

Hyder

Vecino-Ortiz

2014

Bull. World Health Organ.

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Qualitative study to explore stakeholder perceptions related to road safety in Hyderabad, India

Cited by 31 publications

References 20 publications

Road safety perspectives among employees of a multinational corporation in urban India: local context for global injury prevention

Road safety perspectives among employees of a multinational corporation in urban India: local context for global injury prevention

Perception on Road Traffic Injuries and Safety in New Delhi: A Qualitative Study among Victims, their Attendants and General Public

BRICS: opportunities to improve road safety

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