Sarizan, Muhammad Syafi Zikri and Qiao Rou, Amelia Yap and Mohd Azhar, Nurul Syasya Afrina (2021) Perception of safe transportation and safe mobility among elderly in Klang Valley. [Project Paper] (Submitted)
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Abstract
Background It is estimated that elderly population will increase to 2 billions by 2050. Therefore there is urge to think about the existence of friendly environment fo elderly. There is also need to tackle issues related to in elderlys transportation and mobility. Many studies found that when transportation mode was investigated, the elderly depend more on private transport (car) as their primary transportation. When there is an increase in age, there is decrease in car use, therefore there is a relation such that the dependence on personal vehicles has long-term effect for elderly. decrease in health wellbeing has caused limitation for elderly to choose another mode of transportation. There is also an increase in crash numbers that involve elderly who need more attention to tackle. This clearly shows a need for a new strategy or plan to improve transportation quality in transportation is essential and crucial. Objective Our study aims to determine the perception of safe transportation and safe mobility among the elderly in Klang Valley. Besides, this study also aims to assess the factors (sociodemographic factors) associated with safe transportation and safe mobility among elderly. Methodology Study Location is in the Klang Valley. The study design is a cross-sectional study and study duration will be from December 2020 to July 2021. The Sample population is going to be elderly in Klang Valley who use transportation in their daily life and the total of targeted population is 350 elderly.The inclusion criteria will be elderly with the age 60 years old and above living in Klang Valley. The exclusion criteria is going to be elderly with chronic dementia or bedwridden elderlyand our calculation will include a 20% non response rate. The questionnaires we used are from Colorado Department of Transportation: Statewide Transit Survey of Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities in 2014. Next, for the data analysis, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 is used to analyze the data collected. For descriptive analysis, categorical data is presented as frequency and percentage.For normally distributed continuous data, mean and standard deviation is used while for non-normally distributed data, the median interquartile range (IQR) will be reported.For inferential statistics, Chi-square test will be used for categorical data to determine the association between the dependent and independent variables.
| Item Type: | Project Paper |
|---|---|
| Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science |
| Depositing User: | Ms Norafizah Radzuan |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2023 07:01 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2023 07:01 |
| URI: | http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1026 |
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