Incidence and Factors Associate with Death in Road Traffic Injury During New Year Period. Case Study in Seven Province of South of Thailand

Abstract

Background: Road traffic injury is a major public health problem around the world and causes more than 1.2 million deaths per year. Injury patients 20 to 50 million per year, especially Thailand, where death rates are very high during the New Year season

Objective: To investigate the situation of road accidents and to study factors related to death of road accident patients during the New Year season.

Materials and Methods: This research has a cross-sectional analytical study in 14,063 cases. Statistics used chi square, fisher exact test and logistic regression

Results: The results showed 14,063 patients were 80.0% of motorcyclists, 19.0% of alcohol consumption, mortality rate 1.3%.Factors associated with death were province variable including Pattani and Satun, road variable including highway and downtown, alcohol consumption including drink and unknown, protective equipment variable including unknown.

Conclusions: Although Thailand is constantly trying to use the rules. Drinking alcohol consumption is still a major problem in the Thailand during the New Year season.  Countryside road are often at risk of death. Therefore improving road standards In order to reduce the risk of death, it is very important.