TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - PERSIAN Traffic Safety and Health Cohort: a study protocol on postcrash mental and physical health consequences
JO  - Injury prevention
A1  - Sadeghi-Bazargani, Homayoun
A1  - Shahedifar, Nasrin
A1  - Somi, Mohammad Hossein
A1  - Poustchi, Hossein
A1  - Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad
A1  - Asghari Jafarabadi, Mohammad
A1  - Sadeghi, Vahideh
A1  - Golestani, Mina
A1  - Pourasghar, Faramarz
A1  - Mohebbi, Iraj
A1  - Ahmadi, Sajjad
A1  - Shafiee-Kandjani, Ali Reza
A1  - Ala, Alireza
A1  - Abdi, Salman
A1  - Rezaei, Mahdi
A1  - Farahbakhsh, Mostafa
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1353-8047
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044499
ID  - ref1
ER  -