Road traffic accident risk indicators among traumatized patients visiting emergency outpatient clinics in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abstract

This study sought to assess the magnitude and factors associated with road traffic accidents among traumatized patients attending at emergency outpatient departments of public hospitals in Addis Ababa. Facility-based cross-sectional study design was employed on 381 samples. All traumatized patients who attend at emergency department of public hospitals in Addis Ababa city was population of the study. Systematic random sampling technique were employed to select study unites. The data was entered and cleaned by Epi-info version 7 and analyzed using SPSS for windows version 23.0 and presented using tables and figures. A total of 373 samples were collected in the study and the most of samples were in the 30–40 years of age range. The magnitude of the road traffic accident was 57.1%. Most of the study participant (64.83%) were male and the maximum age was 79 with a mean of age is (+/- 34 years) responders. Road traffic accident is more prevalence among the most productive and economically active age group. Being Females are 0.48 times higher protective for RTA than Males. Occupation (driver) 5.3 times higher risk to road traffic accident than students, weather condition(cloudy) 0.4 times protective than sunny for RTA and driving at a day time 2.1 times higher risk for RTA than at night. Improve the traffic system and community-based awareness creation could decrease the incident of car accident