TY - JOUR
T1 - PERSIAN Traffic Safety and Health Cohort
T2 - A study protocol on postcrash mental and physical health consequences
AU - Sadeghi-Bazargani, Homayoun
AU - Shahedifar, Nasrin
AU - Somi, Mohammad Hossein
AU - Poustchi, Hossein
AU - Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad
AU - Asghari Jafarabadi, Mohammad
AU - Sadeghi, Vahideh
AU - Golestani, Mina
AU - Pourasghar, Faramarz
AU - Mohebbi, Iraj
AU - Ahmadi, Sajjad
AU - Shafiee-Kandjani, Ali Reza
AU - Ala, Alireza
AU - Abdi, Salman
AU - Rezaei, Mahdi
AU - Farahbakhsh, Mostafa
N1 - Funding Information:
It is also certified that the prospective project receives financial support of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (grant number 63795).
Publisher Copyright:
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Background: Cohort studies play essential roles in assessing causality, appropriate interventions. The study, Post-crash Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in IrAN Traffic Safety and Health Cohort, aims to investigate the common health consequences of road traffic injuries (RTIs) postcrash through multiple follow-ups. Methods: This protocol study was designed to analyse human, vehicle and environmental factors as exposures relating to postcrash outcomes (injury, disability, death, property damage, quality of life, etc). Population sources include registered injured people and followed up healthy people in precrash cohort experienced RTIs. It includes four first-year follow-ups, 1 month (phone-based), 3 months (in-person, video/phone call), 6 and 12 months (phone-based) after crash. Then, 24-month and 36-month follow-ups will be conducted triennially. Various questionnaires such as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnaire, WHO Disability Assessment Schedules, Cost-related Information, etc are completed. Counselling with a psychiatrist and a medical visit by a practitioner are provided accompanied by extra tools (simulator-based driving assessment, and psychophysiological tests). Through preliminary recruitment plan, 5807, 2905, 2247 and 1051 subjects have been enrolled, respectively at the baseline, first, second and third follow-ups by now. At baseline, cars and motorcycles accounted for over 30% and 25% of RTIs. At first follow-up, 27% of participants were pedestrians engaged mostly in car crashes. Around a fourth of injuries were single injuries. Car occupants were injured in 40% of collisions. Discussion: The study provides an opportunity to investigate physical-psychosocial outcomes of RTIs, predictors and patterns at follow-up phases postinjury through longitudinal assessments, to provide advocates for evidence-based safety national policy-making.
AB - Background: Cohort studies play essential roles in assessing causality, appropriate interventions. The study, Post-crash Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in IrAN Traffic Safety and Health Cohort, aims to investigate the common health consequences of road traffic injuries (RTIs) postcrash through multiple follow-ups. Methods: This protocol study was designed to analyse human, vehicle and environmental factors as exposures relating to postcrash outcomes (injury, disability, death, property damage, quality of life, etc). Population sources include registered injured people and followed up healthy people in precrash cohort experienced RTIs. It includes four first-year follow-ups, 1 month (phone-based), 3 months (in-person, video/phone call), 6 and 12 months (phone-based) after crash. Then, 24-month and 36-month follow-ups will be conducted triennially. Various questionnaires such as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnaire, WHO Disability Assessment Schedules, Cost-related Information, etc are completed. Counselling with a psychiatrist and a medical visit by a practitioner are provided accompanied by extra tools (simulator-based driving assessment, and psychophysiological tests). Through preliminary recruitment plan, 5807, 2905, 2247 and 1051 subjects have been enrolled, respectively at the baseline, first, second and third follow-ups by now. At baseline, cars and motorcycles accounted for over 30% and 25% of RTIs. At first follow-up, 27% of participants were pedestrians engaged mostly in car crashes. Around a fourth of injuries were single injuries. Car occupants were injured in 40% of collisions. Discussion: The study provides an opportunity to investigate physical-psychosocial outcomes of RTIs, predictors and patterns at follow-up phases postinjury through longitudinal assessments, to provide advocates for evidence-based safety national policy-making.
KW - cohort study
KW - epidemiology
KW - functional outcome
KW - longitudinal
KW - mental health
KW - quality of life
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130863370&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044499
DO - 10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044499
M3 - Article
C2 - 35292482
AN - SCOPUS:85130863370
SN - 1353-8047
VL - 28
SP - 269
EP - 279
JO - Injury Prevention
JF - Injury Prevention
IS - 3
ER -