Prevalence of visual disorders among truck drivers in the state of Pará in the year of 2018

Abstract

Objective: To study and quantify the visual acuity of the heavy vehicle drivers assisted in the highway health command project in Pará. Methods: A retrospective epidemiological study with a descriptive and descriptive cross-sectional approach. Constituted through a survey in a database on the Health Command in the Federal Highway of the State of Pará in the year 2018, made and made available by the Superintendency of Federal Highway Police in the State of Pará. Results: Considering the visual acuity (AV) measured with the best correction available at the moment of the vehicular direction, for each eye separately, 137 (74.05%) patients had AV 20/30 or better in the right eye (OD), and 135 (72.9%) had AV 20/30 or better in the left eye (OE), thus considering enough for a professional driver. In 18.9%, AV was less than 20/40 in the right eye and 20.54% in the left eye, disabling according to the legislation for professional direction. In addition, 23.8% demonstrated a change in the test for stereopsis. Conclusion: Low visual acuity is quite prevalent among professional drivers, and may be related to the large number of traffic accidents on highways in the State of Pará.