Implicações sociais e econômicas nos pacientes vítimas de acidentes com motocicleta internados no IOT-HCFMUSP / Social and economic implication on patients victims of motorcycle accidents under medical care on IOT-HCFMUSP

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

12/12/2012

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INTRODUCTION: The traffic accidents are considered a problem for the public health system as one of the most frequent cause of violent death in the world. In Brazil, every two minutes a person die or gets injured due the motorcycle accidents. These study aims to verify the profile and the social and economic implications of the patient\ s victims of motorcycle accidents. METHOD: Prospective study that evaluated 68 motorcyclists as conductors and passenger at the moment of the hospital internment and six months after the accident. Questionnaire whit quantitative and qualitative questions were used. RESULT: The motorcycle is responsible for 12% of the internment in the Hospital; 54,4% are victims under 28 years old; 92,6% are conductors and 91,2% are male; 50% utilize the motorcycle as a daily transportation, and 70,6% learn to guide by themselves or with help from friends and relatives. On the revaluation after six months 94,1% needed someone help and 83,8% had their family dynamics changed after the accident. 73,5% didn\ t returned to their professional routine; 80,9% needed extra money and from those 45,6% handled the situation with money loan. As for the leisure times 64,7% used to make sport activities before the accident and after the accident 50% abandoned the sport activities and get restricted to the domestic environment. The main impact described were: movement limitation (52,9%); greater attention and defensive lead (32,4%) and fear (27,9%). The most expressive changes on the daily life were: locomotion (95,6%); in the family (61,8%) and in the affective relationships (16,2%). CONCLUSION: The motorcycle accidents are a matter that concerns the public health system that affects the young and economically active population. The temporary or permanent disabilities causes the change of the family dynamics; psychological trauma and affective relationships compromising the leisure and change the individual behavior. The economical difficulty due the loss of production and the increase whit treatment expenses create financial difficulty that impacts negatively in the family economic situation.

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accident acidentes de trânsito consequências de acidentes impacto psicossocial motocicletas motorcycle relatives and economic social implication

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