An Epidemiological Study Of Road Traffic Accident Cases Attending A Tertiary Care Hospital, BG Nagara, Mandya District, Karnataka State, India.

Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences

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N Sabari Raja¹  CJ Chandra Sekar²  Ashwini Madeshan³  BC Narasimha.³ 

[1]Department of Community Medicine, Government Thoothukudi Medical College

[2]Department of Community Medicine, Government Thiruvannamalai Medical College

[3]Department of Community Medicine, Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences

关键词: Road traffic accident;    Head injury;    Epidemiological factors;    Glassgow coma scale.;   

DOI  :  10.33887/rjpbcs/2022.13.5.14

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

来源: Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences

【 摘 要 】

The demographic transition leads to rapid growth in industrialization, urbanization and increase in populationwhich in turn results in rapid increase in the number of vehicles on inadequate road width. This transition made theroad traffic accidents as the third most common cause of death among non communicable disease. Objectives of thestudy is to assess the status of head injury using glasscow coma scale among road traffic accidents cases coming to atertiary care hospital in B.G. Nagara, Mandya district, Karnataka state and to know the various epidemiological factors(human and environmental factors) related to road traffic accident cases. A Hospital based descriptive cross-sectionalstudy was undertaken at Adichunchanagiri Hospital and Research Centre, a tertiary care hospital, Nagamangala taluk,Mandya district to assess the status of head injury and epidemiological factors responsible for Road Traffic Accidents.About 1204 RTI victims out of 536 Road traffic accidents were interviewed with a semi structured and pretestedquestionnaire during July 2021 to June 2022. Majority of victims were males (82.1%) in the age group of 15 to 30 years(47.6%). Maximum number of victims were educated up to PUC (27.4%) and 15.4% were illiterates. About 8% ofvictims had head injury with majority showed GCS < 3(58.3%). Majorities were drivers (68.6%) involved with a peakduring weekends (57.4%), in the evening hours (23.8%) and during the month of June (19.1%). About 29.7% gaveinadequate visibility and 18.5% gave alcohol consumption as the reason for the RTA. The current study resultsobserved that males in the productive age group of 15 to 30 years were majority victims of RTA and so makingeconomic loss and burden on the family. Awareness should be created to prevent RTA and its mortality and morbidity.

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