MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS: CHARACTERISTICS AND SUSPECTED ALCOHOL USE

Authors

  • Bárbara de Jesus Cunha da Silva
  • José Diego Marques Santos
  • Ana Maria Ribeiro dos Santos
  • Maria Zélia de Araújo Madeira
  • Márcia Teles de Oliveira Gouveia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v22i3.50715

Keywords:

Traffic accidents, Motorcycles, External causes, Wounds and injuries, Accident prevention.

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of motorcycle accidents and suspected alcohol use. Descriptive and cross-sectional study with 110 patients involved in motorcycle accidents assisted at an emergency hospital in a large city (state capital) in Northeastern Brazil. Data was collected in November-December 2016 and analyzed through descriptive statistics and inferential tests. Significant associations were found between alcohol consumption and injury severity, licensed or unlicensed drivers, time of the accident (night or day) and helmet use. Most victims of motorcycle accidents were not using a helmet and had consumed alcoholic beverages. The findings call attention to the need for a direct, effective and sustainable traffic crash surveillance system by the responsible bodies, given the lack of effective preventive measures.

Downloads

Published

2017-08-29

How to Cite

da Silva, B. de J. C., Santos, J. D. M., dos Santos, A. M. R., Madeira, M. Z. de A., & Gouveia, M. T. de O. (2017). MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS: CHARACTERISTICS AND SUSPECTED ALCOHOL USE. Cogitare Enfermagem, 22(3). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v22i3.50715

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 3 (2017)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

License

Cogitare Enfermagem reserves the right to make normative, orthographic, and grammatical changes to the published article to maintain the cultured standard of the language, while respecting the authors' style.

The published study is the sole responsibility of the author(s), and Cogitare Enfermagem is exclusively responsible for evaluating the manuscript as a scientific publication vehicle. Revista Cogitare Enfermagem is not responsible for any violations of Law No. 9,610/1998, the Brazilian Copyright Law.

Cogitare Enfermagem allows the author to hold the copyright of articles accepted for publication, without restrictions.

The articles published are licensed under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0 - The attribution adopted by Cogitare Enfermagem is permitted:

  • Share - copy and redistribute the material in any media or format.
  • Adapt - remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  • Attribution - You must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You may do this in any reasonable way, but not in a way that suggests that the licensor endorses it or approves of its use.
  • No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing something that the license allows.