ISSN: 1859 - 2872
Situation of sleep disorders in long distance bus drivers and traffic accidents in Vietnam
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Objective: To investigate sleep disorder of long distance bus drivers and relationship with traffic accidents in Vietnam. Subject and method: 200 male drivers were analyzed for job characteristics; investigating and evaluating sleep disorder according to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and retrospective traffic accident data for 3 years at the enterprise. Result: The rate of long-distance bus driving with 40.9 ± 5.6 mean age and 12.4 ± 5.6 working experinces with sleep disorder according to the PSQI scale (Global ≥ 10 score) was 58/200 drivers (29.0%). In which, the proportion of drivers with poor/relatively poor sleep quality was 53.5%, 31.5% of drivers had difficulty falling asleep; Average sleep time ≤ 5 hours was 65.5% with sleep efficiency ≤ 85% was 19.0%. 97.5% of drivers wake up when they sleep; 3.5% had to use sleeping pills and 63.0% had difficulty in work/life due to sleep disturbance. In the long-distance bus driver, the risk of traffic accidents of Glober score ≥ 10 points group was 1.6 times higher than that among of Glober score < 10 points group with p<0.01 (95%CI = 1.3 - 5.5, respectively). Conclusion: Sleep disorder of long distance bus drivers could be have relationship with traffic accidents, requiring further in-depth research.
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