TY - JOUR ID - 44432 TI - Effectiveness of Interventions for Prevention of Road Traffic Injuries in Iran and Some Methodological Issues: A Systematic Review JO - Bulletin of Emergency And Trauma JA - BEAT LA - en SN - 2322-2522 AU - Azami-Aghdash, Saber AU - Sadeghi-Bazarghani, Homayoun AU - Heydari, Mahdiyeh AU - Rezapour, Ramin AU - Derakhshani, Naser AD - Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 6 IS - Issue 2 SP - 90 EP - 99 KW - effectiveness KW - Interventions KW - Prevention KW - Road traffic injuries KW - Methodological issues DO - N2 - Objective: To review the effectiveness of Road Traffic Injuries (RTIs) interventions implemented for prevention of RTIs in Iran and to introduce some methodological issues.Methods: Required data in this systematic review study were collected through searching the following key words: "Road Traffic Injuries", "Road Traffic accidents", "Road Traffic crashes", “prevention”, and Iran in PubMed, Cochrane Library electronic databases, Google Scholar, Scopus, MagIran, SID and IranMedex. Some of the relevant journals and web sites searched manually. Reference lists of the selected articles were also checked. Gray literature search and expert contact was also conducted.Results: Out of 569 retrieved articles, finally 8 articles included. Among the included studies the effectiveness of 10 interventions were assessed containing: seat belt, enforcements of laws and legislations, educational program, wearing helmet, Antilock Braking System (ABS), motorcyclists' penalty enforcement, pupil liaisons’ education, provisional driver licensing, Road bumps and traffic improvement's plans. In 7 studies (9 interventions) reduction of RTIs rate were reported. Decreased rate of mortality from RTIs were reported in three studies. Only one study had mentioned financial issue (Anti-lock Brake System intervention). Inadequate data sources, inappropriate selection of statistical index and not mention about the control of Confounding Variables (CV), the most common methodological issues were.Conclusion: The results of most interventional studies conducted in Iran supported the effect of the interventions on reduction of RTIs. However due to some methodological or reporting shortcoming the results of these studies should be interpreted cautiously. UR - https://beat.sums.ac.ir/article_44432.html L1 - https://beat.sums.ac.ir/article_44432_0ddb22121dff9e889ded1d8e63014d01.pdf ER -