Behaviors Causing Accident of Motorcycle Riders at Soi Dao Hospital, Chanthaburi Province

Abstract

This research employs an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach to investigate behaviors causing accident of motorcycle riders at Soi Dao Hospital in Chanthaburi Province, Thailand. The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate the level of behaviors causing accident, 2) to compare these behaviors causing accident among gender, age, educational level, riding experiences, holding the riding license, and duration of holding riding license, and 3) to explore the potential strategies for improving riding behaviors to reduce accident of motorcycle riders at Soi Dao Hospital in Chanthaburi Province. For the quantitative phase, a sample were 97 personnel from Soi Dao Hospital who ride motorcycle selected by using simple random sampling, while the qualitative phase had 9 personnel from Soi Dao Hospital who ride motorcycle selected by using purposive sampling method. The research instruments were questionnaires and semi-structured interview.  The descriptive statistics including t-tests, and One-Way ANOVA were used to analyze data. The qualitative data analyzed using content analysis techniques.

              Quantitative results revealed that the overall level of behaviors causing accident of the motorcycle riders in Soi Dao Hospital, Chanthaburi Province were alarmingly in the highest level. The results of the comparison of behaviors causing accident of the motorcycle riders in Soi Dao Hospital, Chanthaburi Province also showed that the riders having different gender, age, and educational level had the similar riding behaviors, while the ones having different riding experiences, holding the riding license, and duration of holding riding license had the significant differences of riding behaviors at the level of .01. Moreover, the qualitative phase of this study presented the potential strategies for improving riding behaviors to reduce accident of motorcycle riders at Soi Dao Hospital in Chanthaburi Province that the riders should avoid riding the motorcycle during the raining situation with the slippery road which can potentially cause the accident.