Quality of Life Post Traffic Accidents Among Youth

Abstract

Introduction: Traffic accidents cause more than 1.2 million deaths every year, and the leading cause of death among youth aged 15-24 years in Egypt. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate Quality of life post traffic accidents among youth. Design: A descriptive analytical design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted at outpatient clinic orthopedic hospital Ain Shams University Hospitals, and El Helal Hospital. Sample: A purposive sample consists of 250 cases available of youth post traffic accidents after three months from accidents. Tools: three tools were used for data collection, the first tool: An interviewing questionnaire. The second tools: Medical record. Third tool, Universal pain assessment tool. Results: The result found that 71.2% of the total sample of youth post traffic accidents was male and 28.8% of them were female and 80.8%aged 21 -24 years. Most of them had poor quality of life as 90.8% for physical, 99.2% for psychological, 98.8% for social, and 97.2% for spiritual dimension .There were 33.2% of study sample achieved their total health needs while 66.8% of them couldn’t achieve them . Also there were a highly statistical significant association between socio- demographic characteristics of youth post traffic accidents and their health needs and problems at P 0.001.