A survey of health status and its relationship with traffic accident history among occupational drivers in east Azarbayjan provience.

Abstract

stract Professional drivers, including bus, taxi, and long-haul truck drivers, experience higher rates of health issues compared to other occupations. They suffer from more health-related conditions than the general working population and have less access to health care compared to the general population. On the other hand, traffic accidents are one of the most important health problems, which is referred to as war on the roads. The purpose of this study is to investigate the status of occupational health indicators and their relationship with traffic accident records. Method: This study was conducted among 1100 male professional drivers in East Azerbaijan province. Occupational health information related to the last ten years, which includes demographic information, examinations, heart rate, breathing rate and systolic and diastolic blood pressure, information related to weight, height, BMI, blood and urine test factors, optometry, and audiometry of people. , was extracted from the file of professional drivers in one of the occupational medicine centers located in Tabriz city and accident records from the information of the province's traffic police system. The criteria for participating in this study were: males, driving license in grade one, ten years of job experience To analyze the data, SPSS26 software was used, and to check the relationship between health indicators and having or not having an accident, the logistic regression test was used with age adjustment as a confounder. Findings: All participants in the study were male, with a mean age of 59.6 ± 20.53 years, of which 22% had a history of smoking and 78% were non-smokers. In terms of marital status, 2.3% were single and 97.7% were married. All health indicators have a significant relationship with time and a significant linear trend with time has been observed in all cases except for hemoglobin, hematocrit, and white blood cell indicators. the results of this study have shown that the indicators of weight, heart rate, breathing rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, Red Blood Cells, Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS), HDL and LDL have increased. However, indicators such as cholesterol, creatinine, triglyceride, visual acuity eye have a decreasing trend with time. The total number of accidents recorded from 1392 to 1400 was 145 for 1100 drivers, with the highest number related to 1400 and1395 and 70.34% of them were accidents with injury.