ADHD is a Risk Factor of Road Crashes: A Purposive Study of Finding Relation between ADHD and Road Traffic Accident in Bangladesh

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Nusrat Shamima Nur
Resident doctor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Dhaka, Bangladesh

M. S. I. Mullick.
Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Dhaka, Bangladesh

Ahmed Hossain
Resident doctor of Endocrinology Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Background: In Bangladesh fatality rate due to road traffic accidents is rising sharply day by day. At least 2297 people were killed and 5480 were injured in road traffic accidents within 1st six months of 2017.Whereas in the previous year at 2016 at least 1941 people were killed and 4794 were injured within the 1st six months. No survey has been reported in Bangladesh yet correlating ADHD as a reason of impulsive driving which ends up in a road crash.

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Jul 31, 2018
DOI:10.15520/ijcrr/2018/9/08/563

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Nur, N. S., Mullick., M. S. I., & Hossain, A. (2018). ADHD is a Risk Factor of Road Crashes: A Purposive Study of Finding Relation between ADHD and Road Traffic Accident in Bangladesh. International Journal of Contemporary Research and Review, 9(08), 20531–20536. https://doi.org/10.15520/ijcrr/2018/9/08/563
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Vol. 9 No. 08 (2018)
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Medical Science