DISTRIBUTION OF NON-FATAL ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT CASES ADMITTED IN TERTIARY CARE CENTRE IN CENTRAL INDIA- A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Abstract

BACKGROUND In the background of high epidemiologic proportions of road traffic accidents and the fact that very few exploratory studies were reported from central India, the present study was undertaken to study distribution of non-fatal road traffic accident according to time, place and person. Aims and Objectives-To study distribution of non-fatal road traffic accident cases admitted in tertiary care hospital according to time, place and person. MATERIALS AND METHODS Study Place-Tertiary care hospital from Central India. Study Type-Cross-sectional study. Study Period-One year (May 2014 to May 2015). Distribution of study subjects according to time, place and person was recorded in the proforma. Statistical analysis was carried out with the help of software Epi Info version 7.2. Results were presented in percentages. Chi-square test was used as test of significance. RESULTS In temporal distribution, it was seen that 44% road traffic accident cases occurred in the evening and maximum road traffic accident cases occurred on weekends, i.e. on Saturdays (16.72%) and on Sundays (17.39%). 40.67% of road traffic accident cases occurred in rainy season (June to September). In zone wise distribution of accidents which occurred inside city, 36.51% were seen in north zone. It was observed that in majority of accident cases, mode of transport was motorcycle (49.33%). Males were significantly higher than females among the motorcycle occupants as compared to other modes of transport (X-2= 6.76, DF= 1, p< 0.01). CONCLUSION The present study clearly demonstrated that several factors such as rainy season, evening hours, weekends i.e. Saturday and Sunday, north zone of city was found to be more common in road traffic accidents. In majority of accident cases, mode of transport was motorcycle.