Development of an Operational Model to Prevent Road Traffic Injury: A Case Study in Thung Chang District, Nan province

Abstract

The research was conducted by undertaking the quasi-experimental one group pretest-posttest design. The objectives of this study were to develop and evaluate the model of prevention road Traffic Injury which was a case study in Thung Chang District, Nan province. The process was applied from the traffic accident prevention guidelines for the district level. The process was applied from the traffic accident prevention idea scheme of Thailand Road Safety Policy Foundation, under the activity framework of ten activities, with Excellent and Advance levels at a process determined by following the guidelines of the Bureau of Non-Communicable Diseases and the Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health. A total of 40 participants were leaders at the district level. This study conducted in the fiscal year 2018-2019. The data analysis method possessed by percentages, arithmetic means, standard deviation, and paired t-test. Methods of the study started from Step I, an evaluation of operational prevention of a road traffic injury model, and Step II, comparison of death rates from the road traffic injuries in Thung Chang district between 2018 - 2019. The results found that the target group of this study were assigned from this task to solve the problems. The District Road Traffic Injury procedure motivated the communities to cooperate in identifying the major cause of road traffic accidents associated with its injury epidemiology. The District Road Traffic Injury performed participation among the network including the villages, sub-districts, and district levels. Planning of the procedure for preventive measure was exactly hit to the point of the target then it led to increase an average processing score of the road accident prevention by statistically significance at 0.05 level. The score after the prevention procedure was in excellent level of 80.86 per cent.  The death rate from road traffic accidents decreased by 50.21 percent which from 38.78 per 100,000 populations to 19.31 per 100,000 populations. The model from this study could be expanded and replicated in other districts of Nan province.