Estudo de avaliação psicológica de trânsito na microrregião de Natal/RN

Abstract

It is known that traffic accidents have been one of the main causes of road deaths in Brazil and Rio Grande do Norte. Therefore, a study of this size for the Natal/RN micro-region is extremely important for numerical verification of traffic deaths and for decision-making by public managers. Therefore, the objective of this study was to study the amount of morbidity due to traffic accidents in the Natal/RN microregion. For this purpose, the DataSUS deaths from 2000 to 2014 were used for the Natal/RN microregion. The results showed that, unlike the other metropolitan areas distributed in Brazil, the Microregion of Natal presented exorbitant numbers of deaths in the period from 2000 to 2014. The number of pedestrians as the main victims of traffic accidents, followed by motorcyclists and car occupants. In addition to the verification of the predominant class, it was found that the male gender, color/race Parda, schooling from 1 to 3 years, and single marital status are other epidemiological characteristics predominant in the Microregion of Natal/RN. Therefore, the epidemiological mapping and registry of the victims of traffic in the Microregion of Natal/RN according to the type of accident, sexual gender, color/race and marital status, will be important for the prevention and creation of mechanisms to reduce the number of deaths in traffic, thus minimizing economic losses and the families of the dead. This being the necessary Psychological Assessment in the sphere of traffic, with tests of suitability for withdrawal from the CNH.