Smoking,belt use,and road accidents of youth in Kuwait |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Civil Engineering, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 5969 Safat 13060, Kuwait;2. Department of Community Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait;1. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, China;2. School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, China;3. School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK;1. Department of Plastic Surgery, Chiba University, 1-8-1, Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba-city, Chiba, #260-8677, Japan;2. Center for Advanced Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1, Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba-city, Chiba, #260-8677, Japan;3. Department of Clinical-Laboratory and Experimental-Research Medicine, Toho University, Sakura Medical Center, 564-1 Shimoshizu, Sakura-shi, Chiba, #285-8741, Japan;1. Department of Cardiology, Krishna Institute of Medical Science, Secunderabad, India;2. Department of Cardiology, Life Care Science, Ahmedabad, India;3. Department of Cardiology, Medanta – The Medicity, Sector 38, Gurgaon, India;4. Department of Cardiology, Calcutta Medical College, Kolkata, India;5. Department of Medical Affairs, AstraZeneca Pharma India Ltd., Bangalore, India |
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| Abstract: | Youth, worldwide, are involved in a disproportionate number of road accidents, in general, and fatal accidents, in particular. Kuwait is no exception to this trend. The objectives of this funded research were to identify the trends in belt use, smoking in motion, and road accidents of young drivers in Kuwait. Findings of a person-interview questionnaire survey of 1467 randomly selected young drivers in Kuwait are presented. The socio-economic, driving experience, belt use, smoking behaviour, and road accident involvements of the sample young drivers are given. The interrelationships between the socio-economic, belt use, smoking behaviour, and road traffic accidents are also examined. Degrees of association between these variables are determined, and the extent of potential contribution of smoking-in-motion to causes of road accidents is also determined. Young female drivers were found to be generally safer drivers than their young male counterparts; those who smoked while driving used seat belt less, and had a higher involvement rate in road traffic accidents. A number of recommended measures for the improvement of road safety in Kuwait end the paper. |
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