فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Currently, accidents are the second highest cause of death in most societies. Traffic accidentsaccount for the largest proportion of accidental deaths. The aim of this report was to identify the accidents thatcause casualties on the roads around Mashhad.Methods: This study was a case-control study, where the cases were drivers who had accidents resulted incasualties, and the controls were drivers who had accidents in the same locations without casualties. Variablesincluded age, sex, seatbelt use, spontaneous combustion, entrapment within the vehicle, ejection from the vehicle,music playing in the vehicle at the time of the accident, use of cell phone, smoking at the time of the accident,the direction of the accident, the time of day, and the model of the vehicle.Results: Interviews were conducted with the 90% of the cases and the 93% of the controls who consented tobeing interviewed. Females accounted for 16.2% of the case group and 23.4% of the control group, and malescomprised 83.8 % of the cases and 76.6% of the controls. The average age of the case group was 35.5±10.5and of the control group was 39.4±9.8 years. The use of a seatbelt as a safety factor was significantly greater inthe control group (OR=0.44). Combustion occurred in approximately 21% of the accidents in the case group, butin only 1.3% of the accidents in the control group. Being trapped in and being ejected from the vehicle weresignificantly more prevalent in the case group.Conclusions: According to the results of this study, the fastening of seatbelts had a significantly positive effect onreducing the injuries caused by an accident. Age was another significant indicator influencing the outcome of roadaccidents education through media seems to play a great role in reducing mortality and morbidity due to road accident.