Alcohol-related traffic injuries at Wang Thong Hospital in Phitsanulok Province

Abstract

Introduction : Thai people who died from traffic accident caused by intoxicated driving about 6,601persons/year and injuried about 482,020 persons/ year.

Objective : To compare alcohol drinking and non-drinking is related to traffic injuries.

Research design : A matching case-control at the ratio of 1:2.

Setting : Wang Thong Hospital, Phitsanulok Province.

Methods : Questionnaires were used as a tool for data collection which were then analyzed by a descriptive statistics where analytic statistics was also applied by using of Odds Ratio, Chi-square and Logistic Regression.

Results : It was found out that alcohol-drinking drivers were 2.833 times more likely to suffer from traffic injuries than non-drinking drivers and that alcohol consumption is significantly related to suffering from traffic injury (p-value< 0.01). Moreover, the results show that the seventy of the injury suffered by a drunken driver was far more serious than that of a non-drinking driver (p-value < 0.05).

Conclusion : Alcohol consumption is related to traffic injury.