Journal of Education and Health Promotion 2277-9531 4 1 2014 02 01 Investigating the predictive of risk-taking attitudes and behaviors among Iranian drivers 1 6 27380 EN . Ehsanollah Habibi . Azam Haghi . Mohammad Reza Maracy Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Journal Article 2023 02 07 Background: World Health Organization findings shows that up to year 2020 the number<br />of fatality due to driving accidents will increases up to 65%, which is 80% is in developing<br />countries. Iran has one of the highest rates of road traffic accident mortality rate in the world.<br />Materials and Methods: The cross-sectional study was carried out in the center and west of<br />Iran upon 540 ordinary and taxi drivers who were driving regularly from bus terminals and the<br />travel agencies to other cities. Data collection tool is a questionnaire that measuring driving<br />risk taking by two items of risky driving behaviors and risk taking attitudes. Findings: The<br />results of this study showed that the averages of risk driving behaviors scores were higher<br />than the average of risk taking attitudes scores. The results of logistic regression test showed<br />that the risky driving behaviors can be a predictor of driving accidents due to individuals’ risk<br />taking (P = 0.014). Among all these variables, attitude toward rule violations and speeding,<br />aggressive driving and violation of the road laws respectively are important predictive of drivers’<br />risk taking (P < 0.0010). Discussion and Conclusion: Although attitude toward risk taking<br />has been located at a low level by different ways, a desired result was not obtained from the<br />reduction of those high risky behaviors; in fact, high-rate of accidents and traffic incidence in<br />Iran indicates this matter well.<br /><br /> https://jehp.mui.ac.ir/article_27380_cc7f70b9204b1c636d79b331c2431c68.pdf