Accidents during Transportation to School of Students in Bangkok Metropolitan Area
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2009-12-30
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Vajira Medical Journal
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Abstract Accidents during Transportation to School of Students in Bangkok Metropolitan Area Busaba Suppawattanabodee MSc (Biostatistic)* Anan Manomaipiboon MD, MSc (Clinical epidemiology)** Monawat Ngerncham MD, MPH (epidemiology)*** Premwadee Karuhadej Ed D**** * Clinical Epidemiology Unit, BMA Medical College and Vajira Hospital ** Department of Surgery, BMA Medical College and Vajira Hospital *** Department of Surgery, Siriraj Hospital **** Kuakarun Nursing College Objectives: To evaluate the incidence and types of accidents occurring to students in Bangkok Metropolitan area during their daily transportation back and forth to school. Study design: Descriptive study. Subjects: 17,499 students in kindergarten to Mattayom levels from 134 schools in Bangkok Metropolitan area were selected by multi-stage stratified random sampling. Methods: Data concerning the students' transportation including the accidents, occurring during the school year 2002 were collected by self-administered questionnaires which were answered by the students themselves or their parents. Main outcome measures: The number and percentage of accidents and the types of accidents during daily transportation of the students back and forth to schools. Results: 647 students (3.7%) experienced some accidents during their transportation while 388 students (2.2%) got injuries from the accidents. Most of the accidents occurred with the transportation by bus (23.3 %), public motorcycle (22.6%), and personal car (17.3 %). Types of accidents depended mainly on the types of transportation. The most common type of accident among all types of transportations was the collision between the vehicles. The second common type of accident was: falling off the cars among the students who traveled by public transportation of buses, cars or tricycles; falling over of the motorcycles among the students using motorcycles; and falling down or striking with the hard objects among the pedestrians. Conclusion: Though the number of accidents and injuries in the students' transportation were small, this problem created tremendous effects to the students, parents, school authorities, other people, and society. The majority of these accidents were from the drivers' behavior, lack of service mind of the personnel and partly from the suboptimal condition of the public transportation vehicles. Vajira Med J 2008 ; 52 : 257-264
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Vajira Medical Journal; Vol. 52 No. 3 September - December 2008; 257-264