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Physical frailty and fitness of older driver

AIM: to analyze the association between physical frailty and the results of fitness capacity exams for driving vehicles among elder Brazilians. METHODS: this is a cross sectional study, performed in traffic medicine clinics of the city of Curitiba (Brazil). The data was collected through the physica...

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Autores principales: Lenardt, Maria Helena, Cechinel, Clovis, Binotto, Maria Angelica, Kolb Carneiro, Nathalia Hammerschmidt, Lourenço, Tânia Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad del Valle 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5625565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29021637
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author Lenardt, Maria Helena
Cechinel, Clovis
Binotto, Maria Angelica
Kolb Carneiro, Nathalia Hammerschmidt
Lourenço, Tânia Maria
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description AIM: to analyze the association between physical frailty and the results of fitness capacity exams for driving vehicles among elder Brazilians. METHODS: this is a cross sectional study, performed in traffic medicine clinics of the city of Curitiba (Brazil). The data was collected through the physical frailty tests, the use of a structured questionnaire, and searches on the records of the Brazilian National Register of Qualified Drivers.To analyze the information, the authors used descriptive statistics and non-parametrical tests. RESULTS: One hundred seventy two elderly people, of whom 56.4% pre-fragile and 43.6% non-fragile. 25.0% were considered fit for driving, 68.6% were considered fit, but with some restrictions, and 6.4% were placed as temporarily unfit for driving. There was no association between frailty condition and the final results for driving fitness (p= 0.8934). Physical frailty was significantly associated to the restrictions observed for those who were fit under restrictions (p= 0.0313), according to the weekly amount of kilometers traveled (p= 0.0222), and to car accidents occurred after the age of 60 (p= 0.0165). CONCLUSION: Physical frailty was significantly associated to the restrictions related to driving, reason to which makes important to manage frailty over this group of drivers. However, no association observed between physical frailty and the final result for driving vehicles.
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spelling pubmed-56255652017-10-11 Physical frailty and fitness of older driver Lenardt, Maria Helena Cechinel, Clovis Binotto, Maria Angelica Kolb Carneiro, Nathalia Hammerschmidt Lourenço, Tânia Maria Colomb Med (Cali) Original Article AIM: to analyze the association between physical frailty and the results of fitness capacity exams for driving vehicles among elder Brazilians. METHODS: this is a cross sectional study, performed in traffic medicine clinics of the city of Curitiba (Brazil). The data was collected through the physical frailty tests, the use of a structured questionnaire, and searches on the records of the Brazilian National Register of Qualified Drivers.To analyze the information, the authors used descriptive statistics and non-parametrical tests. RESULTS: One hundred seventy two elderly people, of whom 56.4% pre-fragile and 43.6% non-fragile. 25.0% were considered fit for driving, 68.6% were considered fit, but with some restrictions, and 6.4% were placed as temporarily unfit for driving. There was no association between frailty condition and the final results for driving fitness (p= 0.8934). Physical frailty was significantly associated to the restrictions observed for those who were fit under restrictions (p= 0.0313), according to the weekly amount of kilometers traveled (p= 0.0222), and to car accidents occurred after the age of 60 (p= 0.0165). CONCLUSION: Physical frailty was significantly associated to the restrictions related to driving, reason to which makes important to manage frailty over this group of drivers. However, no association observed between physical frailty and the final result for driving vehicles. Universidad del Valle 2017-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5625565/ /pubmed/29021637 Text en Copyright © 2017 Universidad del Valle This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29021637
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