OBJECTIVE Alcohol and other drug use appears to reduce decision-making ability and increase the risk of unsafe sex, leading to possible unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases/human immunodeficiency virus/HIV transmission, and multiple sexual partners. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that risky sexual behaviors among adolescents are associated with legal and illegal drug us...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the factors associated with sexual risk behavior in adolescent girls and boys in order to plan future school health interventions. METHODS A cross-sectional study with two-stage cluster sampling that included 97 schools and 9,340 students aged between 14 and 16 years old was carried out in 2005-2006 in Catalonia (Spain). For the survey, a self-administered paper-based que...

Past research has uncovered personality influences on dangerous driving behavior and vehicle crashes (Furnham & Saipe, 1993; Matthews, Dorn, & Glendon, 1991). Recently, females between 16 and 20 years of age showed an increase in overall crash rate, while males within the same age group showed a decrease in overall crash rate (NHTSA, 2004; NHTSA, 2002). Adolescent and young adult females have b...

OBJECTIVE Construction is a hazardous occupation due to the unique nature of activities involved and the repetitiveness of several field behaviors. The aim of this methodological and theoretical review is to explore the empirical factors influencing unsafe behaviors and accidents on construction sites. METHODS In this work, results and findings from 56 related previous studies were investigat...

PURPOSE Unsafe behaviors are an important cause of accidents in adolescent age groups. This study was designed to examine the behaviors of adolescent pedestrians in southern Iran. METHODS This is a descriptive analytical cross-sectional study. The study population consisted of high school students in Shiraz, capital city of Fars Province, Iran. Five hundred and sixteen students were selected ...

The main objective of this paper is to report on unsafe actions of motor vehicle drivers at railroadhighway grade crossings and drivers’ response to installation of a centerline barrier that prevented them from driving around the gates. A comparison of unsafe driver actions in the preand post-barrier periods provided an idea about the effectiveness of the barrier in reducing unsafe driver actio...

To control coal miner’s unsafe behavior, miner and manager behaviors were analyzed, and a behavior control system model was constructed. The necessity conditions of optimal management behavior of coalmine manager in both complete information and incomplete information condition were studied. The result established that, only if the estimated value of unsafe behavior by manager was the same as t...

Numerical programs usually include type-casting instructions which convert data among different types. Identifying unsafe type-casting is important for preventing undefined program behaviors which cause serious problems such as security vulnerabilities and result non-reproducibility. While many tools had been proposed for handling sequential programs, to our best knowledge, there isn’t a tool g...

The frequency of work accidents in construction projects is relatively high. One contributing factor to unsafe behavior by workers at sites. In Indonesia, this the first study investigate 2503 instances that occurred across Indonesian relation their attributes obtain insightful knowledge using association rule mining (ARM) method. Association was used explore database. As a result, two consolid...