RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Acculturation and risk of traffic crashes in young Asian-born Australian drivers
JF Injury Prevention
JO Inj Prev
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 74
OP 78
DO 10.1136/ip-2022-044718
VO 29
IS 1
A1 Soufiane Boufous
A1 Holger Möller
A1 George Patton
A1 Mark Woodward
A1 Mark R Stevenson
A1 Teresa Senserrick
A1 Rebecca Mclean
A1 Patricia Cullen
A1 Amy Wang
A1 Kris Rogers
A1 Huei-Yang Chen
A1 Rebecca Q Ivers
YR 2023
UL http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/29/1/74.abstract
AB The study examines changes over time in crash risk differences between young Australian drivers born in Asia and those born in Australia.Data from the 2003 baseline survey of the DRIVE cohort of 20 806 young drivers aged 17–24 years were linked to police, hospital and death data up until 2016. The association between country of birth and crash was investigated using flexible parametric survival models adjusted for confounders.Six months after baseline, the crash risk in Asian-born drivers was less than half that of their Australian-born counterparts (mean HR, MHR 0.41; 95% CI 0.29 to 0.57), only to increase steadily over time to resemble that of Australian-born drivers 13 years later (MHR 0.94; 95% CI 0.66 to 1.36).This is likely to be associated with acculturation and the adoption by young Asian-born Australian drivers of driving behaviour patterns akin to those born locally. This needs to be considered in future road safety campaigns.