title: [Investigation of traffic law violations among middle school students in Hunan province and the influencing factors].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the incidence of traffic law violations among middle school students of Hunan province and to identify the influencing factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Stratified sampling and cluster sampling were used to randomly select students from 96 classes of 16 middle schools. Road traffic law violations were measured through recalling the occurrence of 5 common violations in the prior year. Most of influencing factors were collected by self-designed questionnaire except for family support function and parenting that were measured by the family assessment device (FAD) and the parenting locus of control scale (PLOC), respectively. Kruskal Wallis H test and multinomial logistic regression were used to analyze the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall incidence rate of five common traffic law violations among middle school students in Hunan province fell between 16.6%-43.3%. Except for running against traffic light or not using pedestrian crossings (8.2%), students with the other 4 traffic law violations merely accounted for less 4%. The rates of students with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 kinds of traffic law violations were 25.3%, 17.8%, 10.2%, 6.2% and 3.4%, respectively. Logistic regression showed that there were 3 factors (area, junior or senior high school, and single child or not), 5 factors (area, junior or senior high school, sex, single child or not, and class leader or not) and 6 factors (type of school, junior or senior high school, sex, class leader or not, family support function, and type of family education) significantly associating with the occurrence of 1, 2, and 3 or more traffic law violations, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Only a small proportion of students often or almost always break traffic law or break several traffic laws at the same time. Students with serious traffic law violations should be targeted by school safety education and intervention.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China.
authors.forename: Qiqi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Songlin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Aichun
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Guoqing
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control; D000293:Adolescent; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D035846:Law Enforcement; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012449:Safety / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012494:Sampling Studies; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires