PERSIAN traffic safety and health cohort: a population-based precrash cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Despite to high burden of road traffic injuries (RTIs), the RTI epidemiology has received less attention with rare investments on robust population cohorts. The PERSIAN Traffic Safety and Health Cohort (PTSHC) was designed to assess the potential causal relationships between human factors and RTI mortality, injuries, severity of the injury, hospitalised injury, violation of traffic law as well as offer the strongest scientific evidence.

Participants

The precrash cohort study is carried out in four cities of Tabriz, Jolfa, Shabestar and Osku in East Azerbaijan province located in northwest Iran. The participants were people who sampled among the general population. The cluster sampling method was used to enrol the households in this study. The PTSHC encompasses a wide

SUBMITTER: Golestani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10862303 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature