Prevalence of early morning alcohol consumption among commercial motorcyclists and its health consequences in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. e525-e531
Author(s):  
Laofe Ogundipe ◽  
Alaba Omotola ◽  
Quadri K Alabi ◽  
Tunrayo Oluwadare ◽  
Aderemi Obawole
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Early Morning ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Psychomotor Activity ◽  
The Past

Abstract Background Alcohol is classified among legal substances, but its excess consumption can result in road traffic accidents via impairing psychomotor activity and concentration. This study investigated the prevalence of early morning alcohol consumption and its health consequences among commercial motorcycle (Okada) riders in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Methods Systematic sampling technique was used to recruit subjects for this study. Cutting down alcohol; annoyed by comments on alcohol; guilt of alcohol use; early morning use of alcohol; eye opener (CAGE) questionnaire was used to estimate the prevalence of problematic alcohol use among Okada riders in Ado Ekiti. Results One hundred and seven Okada riders were assessed. Majority of them were young adults. Majority of the riders know another rider who have had a serious road traffic accident riding Okada in the past 12 months and 29% of them know a rider who had died riding Okada in the past 12 months. About 28.6% of them admit early morning alcohol consumption. Suppression of cold (45.5%), keeping awake (19.4%) and peer group effect (14.5%) were the major identified factors influencing them to use alcohol. The commonest types of injuries sustained were bruises and lacerations (51.1%) and fractures of upper and lower limbs (18.7%). Conclusion The early morning alcohol consumption among Okada riders contributed to road traffic accidents in Ekiti state, Nigeria.

scholarly journals On-Site Evaluation of Smoking, Alcohol consumption and Physical Inactivity Among Commercial Taxi Drivers in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Aanuoluwa Odunayo Adedokun ◽  
Daniel Ter Goon ◽  
Eyitayo Omolara Owolabi ◽  
Oladele Vincent Adeniyi ◽  
Anthony Idowu Ajayi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Physical Inactivity ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Commercial Drivers

BACKGROUND: Commercial drivers have been identified as eliciting behaviours that promote non- communicable diseases and road traffic accidents. The aim of the study is to determine the prevalence and pattern of alcohol use, smoking and physical inactivity among commercial taxi drivers in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 403 commercial drivers using the face-to-face interviews method. The WHO STEPwise questionnaire was used to obtain the demographic data, self-reported rate of alcohol consumption, tobacco use and physical inactivity. RESULTS: The participants’ mean age was 43.3 ± 12.5 years. About 30% of the participants were daily smokers, 37% consumed alcohol regularly and only 18% were physically active, whilst 82% were physically inactive. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of alcohol use, smoking and physical inactivity is high among commercial drivers in East London. Workplace health education on the health effects of these lifestyles’ risky behaviours on individuals and the general public should be given to the drivers.

scholarly journals RISK FACTORS AND CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

2014 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 102-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun S. Pillai ◽  
Arjun Nayanar ◽  
Arushi Chopra ◽  
Avinash Suresh ◽  
Chilsia Shaffi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
College Students ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Alcohol Intoxication ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Pressure Stress

Abstract: Introduction: Alcoholism is the recent trend among college students. Peer pressure,stress,depression are some factors that drive these students to practice this social evil. Under intoxication,consequences are grave. Drunk and driving, road traffic accidents, legal issues, antisocial activities are some of them, that has proved alcoholism a public menace. Objective: To assess the risk factors and consequences of alcohol consumption among adolescents. Materials and Methods: A survey was carried out in the colleges under NITTE University. Students present at the day and time of visit were covered. A questionnaire was prepared comprising of a set of 14 questions covering the main objective of the survey. The students were asked to fill the questionnaire irrespective of their gender or whether they consume alcohol or not. Results: From the survey, we found that social gatherings and lifestyle adaptation are major factors that prompt students to consume alcohol. Peer pressure,stress and parents influence are other factors.The consequences observed are legal issues and family problems. But majority didn't seem to face any grave problems due to alcohol intoxication. Conclusions: According to our study, more than 55% of the subjects that consume alcohol do so due to peer pressure, academic stress and emotional stress. Also, more than quarter of those consuming alcohol are involved in road traffic accidents and other legal issues, as well as having familial problems.

scholarly journals On the expediency to organize monitoring of the medical and sanitary consequences of road traffic accidents

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
S. F. Goncharov ◽  
A. V. Baranov ◽  
E. A. Mordovsky
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Trauma Centers ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Health Consequences

Relevance. Road traffic accidents are a source of significant medical, demographic, social and economic losses. To reduce the volume of medical and sanitary consequences of road accidents, to achieve the targets of the national project “Safe and High-Quality Roads”, it is necessary to further improve the technologies for providing medical care to victims of road accidents at all stages, including their adaptation to the regional characteristics of road traffic traumatism, and the mechanism of interaction between medical organizations performing the functions of trauma centers. This task can be solved provided that a system of information exchange between trauma centers is created, as well as the organization of monitoring of health consequences in road accidents on its basis. To accumulate and analyze information, a polynosological register, a type of distributed database, is to be used.Intention – to substantiate the expediency to organize monitoring of the health consequences of road traffic accidents.Methodology. Regulatory documents were reviewed as well as results of Russian and foreign scientific research of organizational approaches to the provision of specialized medical care to victims of road accidents at the hospital stage, and also algorithms of introducing information technologies into the activities of medical organizations. The search for sources was performed in specialized scientific search systems (eLibrary, National Library of Medicine – PubMed, Scopus etc.).Results and Discussion. The organization of monitoring of the medical and social consequences of road traffic accidents at the level of the territories of the Russian Federation has been substantiated (including its purpose, tasks, coordinators and implementers). The directions of using the monitoring results were determined.Conclusion. Monitoring of medical and social consequences of road traffic accidents will provide a reliable assessment of their scope in the regions of the country. Besides, health authorities will get reliable information to develop effective measures for reducing medical, demographic, social and economic losses associated with road traffic accidents.

scholarly journals METHOD OF COMPILING AND USING THE VEHICLES HISTORY AT THEIR TECHNICAL CONDITION STUDY IN THE TASKS IN DETERMINING THE FAILURE CAUSES OF THE UNITS AND ASSEMBLIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 594-605
Author(s):  
А. Khrulev
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Warranty Period ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

The article examines the expertise field of the technical condition study of the vehicles that are not related to road traffic accidents, but refer to the settlement of the disputes with the claims regarding the quality of a sold vehicle during its warranty period, as well as the quality of its maintenance and repair. It is noted that the occurrence of a failure existing at the time of the expert’s study may be associated with various events in the history of the vehicle. It is shown that the fault cause investigated by the expert can be actually located in one of the past events, and such events together make up the vehicle history, if they are arranged according to the chronology of the dates and / or run (running time) of the vehicle. A simple method for compiling and analyzing the vehicle history was proposed, which allows one to establish the fault causes of units and assemblies that are difficult or impossible to identify by other methods. By a typical example all the stages of compiling a vehicle history table was shown from the analysis of all the available documents and information up to analyzing the characteristic events and their symptoms in the history. This means the inclusion of all identified events in the history table, the allocation of characteristic events and their corresponding symptoms in the history, which can indicate the initial damage to the studied unit, the development of the damage or another characteristic event that is important for determination of the fault cause. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that the analysis of the vehicle history is one of the possible ways to determine the fault cause of the complex units and assemblies. The developed simple method for compiling and analyzing the vehicle history table makes it possible to establish the fault causes that are difficult or impossible to identify by other methods. Using the proposed method in practice has shown its effectiveness in solving the expert tasks related to the technical condition study of the vehicles when considering disputes in connection with the claims to the quality of the vehicles or their repair.

Road Traffic Accident in Ethiopia from 2007/08-2017/18

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Debela Deme
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Road Traffic Accident ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Network Coverage ◽  
The Past

Traffic accident increased periodically in alarming rate and it was a serious problem throughout the globe particularly in developing countries like Ethiopia. This research concerns on Analyzing Road Traffic Accident in Ethiopia from 2007/08-2017/18. The main objective of the study was to investigate the growth rate of road traffic accident, road network coverage and motorized vehicle, and relationship between them in the past elven (11) year. In order to address the required objective the study use secondary data collected from Ethiopia federal police commission, Ethiopia road authority and Ethiopia federal transport authority. Basically, descriptive and inferential statistical analysis approach was used to analyze the data. The finding of the study revealed that; in the past eleven year more than 291577 Road traffic accident, 912956km road network and 681000 motorized vehicles were developed. Due to Road traffic accident Ethiopia loses around 36.3 billion birr (estimated 1.3 billion $ in current exchange rate of 28 birr for 1$) in the past eleven (11) year in Ethiopia. In average annually Ethiopia loses around 0.9% of budget due to traffic accident in the past eleven year. Average annual growth rate of road traffic accident, road network development and motorized vehicle were 9.16%, 10.81% and 13.34% respectively. In Ethiopia in the past eleven (11) years more than 276491 road traffic accidents, 912956km road network and 681000 number of motorized vehicle were newly introduced since 2007/08 in the study period. The variation on road traffic accident, road network coverage in km and motorized vehicle between commencement of study period (2007/08) or Ethiopia millennium (2000E.C) with end of the study period (2017/18) were estimated around 25914, 82414 and 563003 respectively. Finally, the study intend that road traffic accident had no direct or indirect relation with growth of motorized vehicle and road network coverage in Ethiopia. To curb the problem faced due to road traffic accident the government and other stakeholder must careful the issues to minimize road traffic accidents in Ethiopia.

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