Abstract
Background: Drivers with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are at 2 to 3 times increased risk of being involved in motor vehicle crashes. Also sleepiness and low sleep quality is a major contributing factor in the frequency of highway vehicle crashes and has serious consequences as it leads to a far higher fatality rate than other factors. This study is aim to assessment of relationship among traffic accident with risk of OSA and sleep quality.
Method: this article was studied among truck driver in Transportation Company in Iran (Qom province). The drivers filled out Berlin and Pittsburg questionnaire about risk of OSA and sleep quality and questions about history of car accident and it's frequency in previous 5 years. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to measure the strength of association between continuous variables. For analysis of qualitative parameters, we use from chi-square and if it was required, checked by fisher's exact test. Data analysis was done in SPSS and P value below than 0.05 was significant.
Results: out of 250 drivers, 214 persons filled out questionnaires. Of these, mean age was 42.15 years, 19.6% had poor sleep quality and 23.8% had risk of OSA. This article showed significant difference among driver accident with sleep quality and risk of OSA (P= 0.034 and p=0.004 respectively). Also there were prominent relationship between sleep quality with sleep duration and night driving (p<0.001).
Conclusion: according to this data, risk of OSA and poor sleep quality in drivers in high and attention to this items help to decrease frequency of traffic accidents.
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