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Preliminary Validation of a Questionnaire Covering Risk Factors for Impaired Driving Skills in Elderly Patients
Due to rather unspecific statutory regulations in Germany, particularly for patients with neurodegenerative disorders, many seniors still drive despite severe driving-related cognitive deficits. An accurate assessment of driving fitness requires immense financial, personnel and temporal resources wh...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6371095/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31022801 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics1010005 |
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author | Schulz, Philipp Spannhorst, Stefan Beblo, Thomas Thomas, Christine Kreisel, Stefan Driessen, Martin Toepper, Max |
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description | Due to rather unspecific statutory regulations in Germany, particularly for patients with neurodegenerative disorders, many seniors still drive despite severe driving-related cognitive deficits. An accurate assessment of driving fitness requires immense financial, personnel and temporal resources which go beyond daily clinical routines. In cooperation with a working group from Switzerland, we therefore developed the questionnaire Safety Advice For Elderly drivers (SAFE), an economic instrument covering different risk factors for driving safety. The main aim of the current work was a first validation of the SAFE. Twenty-two driving seniors performed the Corporal A, a test battery permitted by law to assess driving-related cognitive functions. Based upon the Corporal results and the percentile rank 16 criterion, participants were divided into cognitively impaired and unimpaired drivers. Moreover, participants were assessed using the SAFE and an extensive neuropsychological test battery. The results revealed high sensitivity and specifity scores for the SAFE suggesting that the SAFE may be a valuable and economical instrument to quantify and document individual risk factors for driving safety and to differentiate between impaired and unimpaired drivers. Notably, the results must be replicated in future studies including a larger sample, different clinical subgroups, and a practical driving lesson. |
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spelling | pubmed-63710952019-03-07 Preliminary Validation of a Questionnaire Covering Risk Factors for Impaired Driving Skills in Elderly Patients Schulz, Philipp Spannhorst, Stefan Beblo, Thomas Thomas, Christine Kreisel, Stefan Driessen, Martin Toepper, Max Geriatrics (Basel) Article Due to rather unspecific statutory regulations in Germany, particularly for patients with neurodegenerative disorders, many seniors still drive despite severe driving-related cognitive deficits. An accurate assessment of driving fitness requires immense financial, personnel and temporal resources which go beyond daily clinical routines. In cooperation with a working group from Switzerland, we therefore developed the questionnaire Safety Advice For Elderly drivers (SAFE), an economic instrument covering different risk factors for driving safety. The main aim of the current work was a first validation of the SAFE. Twenty-two driving seniors performed the Corporal A, a test battery permitted by law to assess driving-related cognitive functions. Based upon the Corporal results and the percentile rank 16 criterion, participants were divided into cognitively impaired and unimpaired drivers. Moreover, participants were assessed using the SAFE and an extensive neuropsychological test battery. The results revealed high sensitivity and specifity scores for the SAFE suggesting that the SAFE may be a valuable and economical instrument to quantify and document individual risk factors for driving safety and to differentiate between impaired and unimpaired drivers. Notably, the results must be replicated in future studies including a larger sample, different clinical subgroups, and a practical driving lesson. MDPI 2016-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6371095/ /pubmed/31022801 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics1010005 Text en © 2016 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Schulz, Philipp Spannhorst, Stefan Beblo, Thomas Thomas, Christine Kreisel, Stefan Driessen, Martin Toepper, Max Preliminary Validation of a Questionnaire Covering Risk Factors for Impaired Driving Skills in Elderly Patients |
title | Preliminary Validation of a Questionnaire Covering Risk Factors for Impaired Driving Skills in Elderly Patients |
title_full | Preliminary Validation of a Questionnaire Covering Risk Factors for Impaired Driving Skills in Elderly Patients |
title_fullStr | Preliminary Validation of a Questionnaire Covering Risk Factors for Impaired Driving Skills in Elderly Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Preliminary Validation of a Questionnaire Covering Risk Factors for Impaired Driving Skills in Elderly Patients |
title_short | Preliminary Validation of a Questionnaire Covering Risk Factors for Impaired Driving Skills in Elderly Patients |
title_sort | preliminary validation of a questionnaire covering risk factors for impaired driving skills in elderly patients |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6371095/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31022801 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics1010005 |
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