TY - JOUR T1 - Intentions and willingness to engage in risky driving behaviour among high school adolescents: evaluating the <em>b</em>streetsmart road safety programme JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 1 LP - 7 DO - 10.1136/ip-2022-044571 VL - 29 IS - 1 AU - Lisa Nicole Sharwood AU - A Martiniuk AU - Pooria Sarrami Foroushani AU - Julie Seggie AU - Stephanie Wilson AU - Jeremy Hsu AU - Brian Burns AU - David Bruce Logan Y1 - 2023/02/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/29/1/1.abstract N2 - Objective To investigate the impact of a road safety programme on adolescents’ willingness to engage in risky behaviour as probationary drivers, adjusted for covariates of interest.Method The bstreetsmart is a road safety programme delivered to around 25 000 adolescent students annually in New South Wales. Using a smartphone-based app, student and teacher participation incentives, students were surveyed before and after programme attendance. Mixed-methods linear regression analysed pre/post-modified Behaviour of Young Novice Driver (BYNDS_M) scores.Results 2360 and 1260 students completed pre-event and post-event surveys, respectively. Post-event BYNDS_M scores were around three points lower than pre-event scores (−2.99, 95% CI −3.418 to −2.466), indicating reduced intention to engage in risky driving behaviours. Covariates associated with higher stated intentions of risky driving were exposure to risky driving as a passenger (1.21, 95% CI 0.622 to 2.011) and identifying as non-binary gender (2.48, 95% CI 1.879 to 4.085), adjusting for other predictors.Conclusions Trauma-informed, reality-based injury prevention programmes can be effective in changing short-term stated intentions to engage in risky driving, among a pre-independent driving student population. The adolescent novice driver age group is historically challenging to engage, and injury prevention action must be multipronged to address the many factors influencing their behaviour.Data are available upon reasonable request. Data are available upon reasonable request, as de-identified participant data from the corresponding author and with appropriate ethical permissions. ER -