The present study was conducted to know the sociodemographic profile of RTA cases. According to WHO report on “Global status report on road safety 2013 it was found that road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29 yrs and about 46% those dying are “ vulnerable road users”. In the present study it was found that 89.6% of the cases were males. Similarly Jha Nilambar et.al & Kumar Srinivasa P.V. et.al also found that males were predominantly involved. It was also found that maximum cases were in the age group of 16-30 years (40.0%), followed by 31-45 yrs (25.8%). Similar trend was also observed by Mishra B et al. & Khare et al. who reported that the maximum cases were in the age group of 15–30 years (38.3% &50% respectively) followed by 31-45yrs age group. Patil S S et al. also observed that the maximum (29.4%) cases were between 20- 29 years of age. Among males 16-30 years age group (42.3%) was the most commonly affected, while among females the most common age group was 46-60 years (34.1%). Gudadinn M. R found that the maximum (30.9%) of cases were in the age group of 20-30 yrs both in males and females as compared to our study. Sharma Deepak et al. found that in males the most common age group involved was 21-30 years (31.8%) whereas in case of females the highest number of cases was seen in the age group of 31- 40 years (21.9%). This sex difference may obviously be due to the fact that males tend to travel more for work related and other purposes as compared to females.
Author(s) Details:
Verma P.,
Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College Kannauj, U.P, India.
Singh G.,
Department of Community Medicine, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India.