Incidence of Road Traffic Injury and Associated Factors among Patients Visiting the Emergency Department of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tiruneh, Bewket Tadesse; Dachew, Berihun Assefa; Bifftu, Berhanu Boru

doi:10.1155/2014/439818

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“…The analysis of hypothesis 5 showed an existence of positive statistical influence of family size on roadsafety practice of taxi drivers in Uyo metropolis. The finding agreed with the previous studies of Adisa (2010) and Tiruneh et al (2014) who reported positive association of family size with road-safety practice. These authors explained that drivers with many children or more number of persons to provide for in their families are not always able to observe and adhere to ideal road-safety practices.…”

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Social Variables and Road Safety Practices Among Taxi Drivers in Uyo Metropolis, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

2019

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The study was conducted to investigate the influence of social variables on road-safety practices among taxi drivers in Uyo Metropolis of Akwa Ibom State. Specifically, the influences of age, educational qualifications, marital status, income level, family size and beliefs about causes of road traffic accident on road-safety practices of taxi drivers were examined. Six research questions and six hypotheses were generated to guide the study. A survey design was used for the study. A sample size of 147 (30%) were selected using simple random sampling technique at the Drivers' Union meeting-hall through the cooperation of their leaders. The instrument for data collection was a researcher's constructed questionnaire titled ''Social Variables and Road Safety Practices Questionnaire (SVRSPQ)'' The instrument was pretested using Cronbach's alpha statistics and a reliability coefficient of .78 was obtained. Simple percentage was used to answer the research questions while Chi-square was used for test of hypotheses at .05 probability level of significance. Findings revealed that age, educational qualification, marital status, income level, family size and beliefs about causes of road traffic accident all had positive influences on the road-safety practices of taxi drivers in Uyo metropolis. Intensive road-safety/health education campaign was recommended to inculcate safety-consciousness among all drivers and other road users in Uyo Metropolis and other parts of the state.

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Social Variables and Road Safety Practices Among Taxi Drivers in Uyo Metropolis, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

2019

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“…The odd of road traffic injury is more than 3 times AOR = 3.05, 95% CI (1.20-7.69)higher for individual ofbelow 15 years old as compared to individual above 45 years old. This study result was consistent with finding Arbaminch General Hospital, EDHS 2016 secondary data analysis, Dicholora Hospital and Tekur Anbessa Referral Hospital (8,(12)(13)(14). It was also consistent with previous study conducted in Wolaita Zone in similar study area (7).…”

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Prevalence of road traffic injury and its associated factors at hospitals in Wolaita Zone

Weldemariam

Lendado

2019

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Background Road traffic injury is defined as fatal or non-fatal cases incurred as a result of road traffic crashes. It accounts for an estimated 1.2 million people death and as many as 50 million injury in each year worldwide. This study was aimed to determine prevalence and associated risk factors of road traffic injury.Objective To determine the prevalence and its associated risk factors of road traffic injury.Method Facility based cross-sectional study with sample size of 309 was used for conducting study in two selected hospitals in Wolaita Zone.Systematic sampling method was applied to select study subject based on inclusion criteria. Data was collected by questionnaires which was developed from reviewing different literatures and analysed by using SPSS version 20statistical software.Result Among the total of trauma victims who visited emergency department of hospitals, approximately half of victims (49.2%) were due to road traffic injury followed by falling injury 60 (19.4%) and burns 35 (11.3%). After adjusting for confounding in multivariate logistic regression analysis, sex and living places are independent factors of road traffic injury. Two of them are highly significantly associated with road traffic injury and being male and urban resident had thirteen times AOR 13.08 95% CI (6.15-27.85) and more than two times AOR 2.69 95%CI (1.55-4.64) increased odd of road traffic injury respectively.Conclusion Road traffic injury was leading injury types among trauma victims visiting emergency department of Hospitals. Therefore, strong road safety policy at local and country level is needed to reduce vulnerability of individuals and vehicle related injury.

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“…A qualitative study done in central Ethiopia indicated that economic problems, pedestrian ignorance and the current mismatch of vehicle eet and existing road conditions were the major factors for RTI (9). Previous studies indicated that poor road conditions were responsible for Road tra c injury (10).. A study done in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, drivers (35%) were the most vulnerable group of road tra c injury (11). Motorcycle injury was the highest as compared to other vehicles.…”

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Prevalence and associated factors of motorcycle accident injuries in public Hospitals of Southern Ethiopia.

Tadesse

Mekonnen

T/Selassie

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Objective The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of motorcycle accident injuries in hospitals of Sothern Ethiopia, 2018/2019.Result Of the total 423 road traffic injury, motorcycles were involved in 213 (50.4%) of the road traffic accidents. The presence of poor road conditions like loose gravel, steep descent, and rough road was responsible for 44.6% of motorcycle accident injury. The odds of motorcycle accident injuries were 50% and 52% less likely to occur during sunny and foggy weather conditions respectively compared to rainy weather conditions.

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Incidence of Road Traffic Injury and Associated Factors among Patients Visiting the Emergency Department of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Cited by 38 publications

References 7 publications

Social Variables and Road Safety Practices Among Taxi Drivers in Uyo Metropolis, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Social Variables and Road Safety Practices Among Taxi Drivers in Uyo Metropolis, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Prevalence of road traffic injury and its associated factors at hospitals in Wolaita Zone

Prevalence and associated factors of motorcycle accident injuries in public Hospitals of Southern Ethiopia.

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