STRESS, LO ÂU Ở LÁI XE KHÁCH ĐƯỜNG DÀI VÀ TAI NẠN GIAO THÔNG

Abstract

This study was carried out to to investigate stress, anxiety of long distance drivers and relationship with traffic accidents. 200 male drivers with 40.9 ± 5.6  years of age and 12.4 ± 5.6 participated in this study. The drivers are analyzed for job characteristics; investigating stress by AIS questionnnair and evaluating anxiety according to Zung test and retrospective traffic accident data for 3 years at the enterprise. The result showed that: The job characteristics  of long distance drivers are high intensity of work; a working long time, unstable time; a night duty; a high responsibility, long sitting hours, ect… The rate of long-distance driver’s stress was 58.5%; symptoms of anxiety are 40.0%. Most of long-distance drivers can control their work stress (97.5%). In the long-distance driver, the risk of traffic accidents of driver’s stress group was 4.2 times higher than that among the non-stressed group (95% CI = 1.5-11.7). The risk of traffic accidents of driver’s anxiety group was 3.0 times higher than that among the non- anxiety group (95% CI = 1.3-6.5). The author recommended that it is necessary to have solution to prevent stress and anxiety for drivers in order to reducing traffic accidents.