Attitude towards use of mobile phone while walking and traffic safety among junior high school students

Objective To investigate the attitudes towards use of mobile phone while walking and traffic safety among junior high school students.Methods A stratified cluster sampling method was used to select 1 793 junior high school students of grade 6-9 from three schools in a community in Shanghai in December 2016.The main focus of the survey included demographic information,attitudes towards the use of mobile phones while walking and related traffic safety.Results Proportions of students who rated "using the WeChat when driving " and "using mobile phones when driving electric bikes/scooters" as very dangerous were 83.8% and 85.3%,and those who rated "using mobile phones or wearing headphones when bicycling","calling when driving" and "using mobile phones while walking" as very dangerous were only 62.3%,61.8% and 61.7% respectively.Awareness rate towards traffic safety was higher among girls and only child in the family(P<0.05).Conclusion The awareness on use of mobile phone while walking or driving is yet to be improved among junior high school students through the building of community traffic safety culture.We should pay more attention on boys and non only childs intervention.