Return to work following road accidents: factors associated with late work resumption.

Objective: To analyse factors associated with late return to work in road accident victims.

Materials And Methods: The ESPARR cohort comprises road accident victims monitored over time from initiation of hospital care. A total of 608 ESPARR cohort subjects were working at the time of their accident and answered questionnaires at 6 months and/or 1 year.

Predictive factors of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder 6 months after a road traffic accident.

Background: This study sets out to identify risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a road traffic accident with a view to improving prevention.

Methods: The study used a prospective cohort of road traffic accident casualties. All subjects over 15 years of age were recruited in the course of an interview conducted while they were receiving care in a hospital of the Rhône area administrative département.

Self-reported road traffic violations in France and how they have changed since 1983.

Goals: The goal was to gain a picture of current driver behaviour, and of the links between committed violations and accident history. It was also to identify how driver behaviour has changed over the last 20 years.

Methods: A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study of a sample of 1161 drivers about the frequency of violations and the perception of the dangers and penalties associated with them was used in 2005.

Functional outcome after road-crash injury: description of the ESPARR victims cohort and 6-month follow-up results.

Objective: It is essential to know about the long-term consequences of road crashes involving corporal injury in order to adopt relevant public health measures.

Methods: The ESPARR cohort comprises 1168 road-crash victims, aged 16 or over, managed in hospitals in the Rhône administrative départment (France). It is based on the Registry of Road Traffic Casualties, which has been collecting exhaustive data since 1995.

Individuals taking a French driving licence points recovery course: their attitudes towards violations.

This paper sets out to describe the drivers attending driving licence points recovery courses (PRC), in order to modify the psychologist's approach during the sessions. The paper describes a questionnaire-based survey of a representative sample of 853 drivers taking a "course designed to raise awareness about the causes and consequences of road traffic accidents". The data are analyzed in part by applying a multiple correspondence analysis.

Diseases, consumption of medicines and responsibility for a road crash: a case-control study.

Unlabelled: The role of medical conditions in crashes is a topic of public debate. Some studies suggest that there has been a reduction in road traffic crashes subsequent to the medical restrictions introduced on drivers with medical deficiencies. As in today's society the car is an important factor for independence and socialization, it seems important to consider whether diseases or consumption of drugs increase the risk of causing a road crash in comparison to well-known major crash risk factors.

Tiring job and work related injury road crashes in the GAZEL cohort.

The objective was to describe at-work and commuting crashes occurring in a cohort of French employees and to investigate occupational risk factors. The subjects were employees of the French national electricity and gas companies, Electricité de France and Gaz de France (EDF-GDF), who volunteered to join a research cohort (the GAZEL cohort which included 20,625 participants in 1989). Only crashes with injuries were considered.