Prevalence of alcohol use among road traffic crash victims presenting to a Malawian Central Hospital: A cross-sectional study.

CONCLUSIONS: A large percentage of road traffic injured patients had been drinking alcohol before their injury, especially male pedestrians. A large proportion of the patients were abstaining from alcohol, but those not abstaining had a high prevalence both of alcohol use when injured and hazardous drinking identified by AUDIT-C. This has important implications for prevention.
PMID: 33064031 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - October 16, 2020 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Sundet M, Kajombo C, Mulima G, Bogstrand ST, Varela C, Young S, Christophersen AS, Gjerde H Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research