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. Conclusion: The study concluded that there was a highly significant relation between quality of life for youth post traffic accidents and their total independency level for all daily living activities where p0.001. Recommendation: Health education program for youth post traffic accident and their family to secure them and help them to cope effectively with their disabilities which have an effect on improvement of their quality of life