A case-crossover study on road traffic injury / 中华流行病学杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the risk factors of road traffic injury (RTI), and to provide evidence for stretagy development on the prevention and control of RTI.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Case-crossover study was used. 402 drivers were face to face interviewed by specially designed questionnaire including the items as drinking alcohol before driving, onset anger scale (OAS), anxiety/irritation, Stanford sleepiness scale (SSS), vehicle breakdown, carelessness, violating the rules on right of way and traffic signs when driving. Tables related to case-control study on 11 matching was used for single factor analysis, and conditional logistic regression was used for multifactor analysis.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The risk factors that were associated with RTI including high OAS (OAS = 5-7, OR = 114.88, 95% CI4.29-3074.86), violating the rules on right of way (OR = 46.96, 95% CI12.74-173.11), violating traffic signs when driving(OR = 24.57, 95% CI 8.69-69.45), carelessness (OR = 14. 54,95% CI 6.85-30.86), unsafe distance between vehicles( OR = 14.30,95% CI 3.68-55.60), wrong judgement (OR = 14.67,95% CI4.88-44.10), vehicle breakdown (OR = 8.57, 95% CI 1.38- 53.27) and improper measure ( OR = 8.46, 95% CI 2.46-29.14) etc.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Improper driving behaviors, abnormal psychological status and driving skills of drivers were related to RTI, suggesting that it was necessary to carry out continous traffic security education to the drivers.</p>