Epidemiology of Trauma Related to Traffic Accident in Injured people Referred to Shohada Hospital in Ghaen

Trauma and its complications are major problems with the advancement of science, technology and the industrialization of societies. Moreover, according to WHO forecasts, accidents will be the second leading of death lonely in all over the world by 2020. Our country also in terms of statistics of the deadliest road accidents is located in the first place in the world. Therefore, the current study has been performed for epidemiological survey of trauma related to traffic accident in injured people referred to Shohada hospital in Ghaen.

This retrospective study was performed on all injured people who referred to Shohada hospital in Ghaen between the years of 2013-2015. Data were collected with a checklist from patients’ records and they were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS software.

From 1555 injured people during the study time, 71.6% were male and 28.4% was female. The average age of research units was 29.3±18.17. Most of the occurred events were within the city and they were related to passenger cars. Traffic accidents were more frequent in summer morning. Discussion and

Traffic accidents are more common in men and youth. Therefore, planning, preventive measures and culture building in community should be performed to reduce the incidence of traffic accidents in this group