Research Article

The Importance of Exercise and General Mental Health on Prediction of Property-Damage-Only Accidents among Taxi Drivers in Tehran: A Study Using ANFIS-PSO and Regression Models

Table 2

Demographic variables (n=259).

VariableFrequency (%)

Age, year
19-308 (3.1)
31-4044 (17)
41-5094 (36.3)
51-6088 (33.9)
61-7023 (8.9)
≥ 712 (0.8)
Education
Less than high school90 (34.75)
High school140 (54.05)
University graduate29 (11.2)
Disease
At least suffering from one of the following diseases:  
Brain and cardiovascular, liver and kidney, gastrointestinal, and musculoskeletal diseases
100 (38.61)
Handicap
Physical disabilities11 (4.25)
Smoking
Taxi drivers who smoke85 (32.82)
Daily exercise, minutes
Not at all141 (54.45)
1-2072 (27.8)
21-4021 (8.1)
41-6025 (9.65)
Number of accidents in the past few months
Property damage only 76 (29.35)
General health values from GHQ
0-10120 (46.3)
11-20115 (44.4)
21-3023 (8.9)
31-361 (0.4)

The taxi drivers had not experienced injury or fatal accidents during the past few months.