The Role of Psychiatric Disorders in Pedestrians Traffic Behavior

Abstract

Traffic accidents are one of the most important problems in the field of public health which account for a large economic burden to different communities. The aim of this study is to assessment of the role of psychiatric disorders in pedestrians traffic behavior. Materials and Methods: This research is a descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study and was conducted in the traffic cohort area of Tabriz city. When going to the door of the households, the PTSD 5 and pedestrian traffic behavior screening questionnaires were completed in people over 18 years old. In Traffic Accident Prevention Research Center, a psychiatric interview based on the SCID DSM IV semi-structured interview was completed by a psychiatrist or a psychiatric assistant. Sampling units in this study included human and accident stage. In this phase, information related to the human dimension in the pre-accident phase was collected for 100 households. This phase continued for five months from September 2021 to the end of January 2021. Results: In this study, among the factors of traffic behavior, the only variable of compliance with traffic rules in the two groups of pedestrians without mental illness and more than one mental illness was significantly more than the group of pedestrians with one mental illness (P-value=0.042); On the other hand, among the factors of traffic behavior, none of the variables of compliance with traffic rules, violation behavior, positive behavior, distraction, violence, and overall score of traffic behavior, there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups of pedestrians with generalized anxiety disorder and without generalized anxiety disorder (P-value>0.05). Among the factors of traffic behavior, the variable of positive behavior in the group of pedestrians without depressive disorder was significantly more than the group of pedestrians with depressive disorder (P-value<0.001); On the other hand, the variable of violence in the group of pedestrians with depression disorder was significantly more than the group of pedestrians without depression disorder (P-value=0.001).