title: Investigating the predictive of risk-taking attitudes and behaviors among Iranian drivers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  World Health Organization findings shows that up to year 2020 the number of fatality due to driving accidents will increases up to 65%, which is 80% is in developing countries. Iran has one of the highest rates of road traffic accident mortality rate in the world.
  
  
  METHODS
  The cross-sectional study was carried out in the center and west of Iran upon 540 ordinary and taxi drivers who were driving regularly from bus terminals and the travel agencies to other cities. Data collection tool is a questionnaire that measuring driving risk taking by two items of risky driving behaviors and risk taking attitudes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results of this study showed that the averages of risk driving behaviors scores were higher than the average of risk taking attitudes scores. The results of logistic regression test showed that the risky driving behaviors can be a predictor of driving accidents due to individuals' risk taking (P = 0.014). Among all these variables, attitude toward rule violations and speeding, aggressive driving and violation of the road laws respectively are important predictive of drivers' risk taking (P < 0.0010).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although attitude toward risk taking has been located at a low level by different ways, a desired result was not obtained from the reduction of those high risky behaviors; in fact, high-rate of accidents and traffic incidence in Iran indicates this matter well.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Ehsanollah
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Habibi
authors.affiliation: Departments of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Azam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haghi
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Reza
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Maracy
keywords: Driving behavior; risk taking; risk-taking attitudes; road accidents
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