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Epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a study based on traffic police records (2018–2020)
INTRODUCTION: Road traffic accidents are a major cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries, causing permanent disabilities, and other indirect health complications. Each year, road traffic accidents (RTA) cause a lot of fatalities and injuries in Ethiopia, putting the country among the list of the most a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9940670/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36803192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-023-00791-0 |
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author | Alemayehu, Micheal Woldemeskel, Asfawesen Olani, Ararso Baru Bekelcho, Tariku |
author_facet | Alemayehu, Micheal Woldemeskel, Asfawesen Olani, Ararso Baru Bekelcho, Tariku |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Road traffic accidents are a major cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries, causing permanent disabilities, and other indirect health complications. Each year, road traffic accidents (RTA) cause a lot of fatalities and injuries in Ethiopia, putting the country among the list of the most affected countries by RTA in the world. Despite the high rates of road traffic collisions in Ethiopia, very little is known about the factors that contribute to fatal RTA in the country. OBJECTIVES: the objective of this study is to assess the epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A study based on traffic police records (2018–2020). METHOD: A retrospective observational study design was conducted used in this study. All road traffic accident victims reported to Addis Ababa police station between 2018 and 2020 were study population and the collected data was evaluated with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 software. Binary logistic regression model was used to indicate the association between dependent and independent variables. Statistically, significant associations were declared at P < 0.05. RESULT: There were 8458 recorded road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa during 2018–2020. Among these accidents, 1274 (15.1%) caused death while 7184 (84.1%) caused an injury. Males accounted for 77.1% of the decedents (sex ratio of almost 3.36:1). The majority 1020 (80%) of the fatality occurred on a straight road and 1106 (86.8%) of the fatality occurred in dry weather. Weekday 1.243 (AOR, 1.234, 95 CI, 1.071–1.443), driver educational status below grade twelve 0.326(AOR 0.326, CI, 0.285–0.374), and commercial truck vehicle 1.682 (OR, 1.696, CI, 1.410–2.040) were statistically associated with fatality after adjusting for potential confounding variables. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of RTA fatality in Addis Ababa is high. The accidents that occurred during the weekdays were more fatal. Driver’s educational status, weekdays, and vehicle type were factors associated with mortality. There is a need to introduce road safety interventions that targeted identified factors in this study to reduce fatalities attributed to RTIs. |
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spelling | pubmed-99406702023-02-21 Epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a study based on traffic police records (2018–2020) Alemayehu, Micheal Woldemeskel, Asfawesen Olani, Ararso Baru Bekelcho, Tariku BMC Emerg Med Research INTRODUCTION: Road traffic accidents are a major cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries, causing permanent disabilities, and other indirect health complications. Each year, road traffic accidents (RTA) cause a lot of fatalities and injuries in Ethiopia, putting the country among the list of the most affected countries by RTA in the world. Despite the high rates of road traffic collisions in Ethiopia, very little is known about the factors that contribute to fatal RTA in the country. OBJECTIVES: the objective of this study is to assess the epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A study based on traffic police records (2018–2020). METHOD: A retrospective observational study design was conducted used in this study. All road traffic accident victims reported to Addis Ababa police station between 2018 and 2020 were study population and the collected data was evaluated with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 software. Binary logistic regression model was used to indicate the association between dependent and independent variables. Statistically, significant associations were declared at P < 0.05. RESULT: There were 8458 recorded road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa during 2018–2020. Among these accidents, 1274 (15.1%) caused death while 7184 (84.1%) caused an injury. Males accounted for 77.1% of the decedents (sex ratio of almost 3.36:1). The majority 1020 (80%) of the fatality occurred on a straight road and 1106 (86.8%) of the fatality occurred in dry weather. Weekday 1.243 (AOR, 1.234, 95 CI, 1.071–1.443), driver educational status below grade twelve 0.326(AOR 0.326, CI, 0.285–0.374), and commercial truck vehicle 1.682 (OR, 1.696, CI, 1.410–2.040) were statistically associated with fatality after adjusting for potential confounding variables. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of RTA fatality in Addis Ababa is high. The accidents that occurred during the weekdays were more fatal. Driver’s educational status, weekdays, and vehicle type were factors associated with mortality. There is a need to introduce road safety interventions that targeted identified factors in this study to reduce fatalities attributed to RTIs. BioMed Central 2023-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9940670/ /pubmed/36803192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-023-00791-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Alemayehu, Micheal Woldemeskel, Asfawesen Olani, Ararso Baru Bekelcho, Tariku Epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a study based on traffic police records (2018–2020) |
title | Epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a study based on traffic police records (2018–2020) |
title_full | Epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a study based on traffic police records (2018–2020) |
title_fullStr | Epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a study based on traffic police records (2018–2020) |
title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a study based on traffic police records (2018–2020) |
title_short | Epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a study based on traffic police records (2018–2020) |
title_sort | epidemiological characteristics of deaths from road traffic accidents in addis ababa, ethiopia: a study based on traffic police records (2018–2020) |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9940670/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36803192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-023-00791-0 |
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