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Decreased driving ability in people with Parkinson's disease
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BACKGROUND: Driving is a complex form of activity involving especially cognitive and psychomotor functions. These functions may be impaired by Parkinson's disease. The relation between Parkinson's disease and driving ability is still obscure and clinicians have to make decisions concerning the driving ability of their patients based on insufficient information. Until now no studies have compared different methods for evaluating the driving ability of patients with Parkinson's disease. METHODS: The driving ability of 20 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and 20 age and sex matched healthy control subjects was evaluated by a neurologist, psychologist, vocational rehabilitation counsellor, and driving instructor using a standard 10 point scale. The patients and controls also evaluated their own driving ability. Cognitive and psychomotor laboratory tests and a structured on road driving test were used for evaluating the subjects' driving ability. RESULTS: The patients with Parkinson's disease performed worse than the controls both in the laboratory tests and in the driving test. There was a high correlation between the laboratory tests and driving test both in the patient group and in the control group. Disease indices were not associated with the driving test. The neurologist overestimated the ability of patients with Parkinson's disease to drive compared with the driving ability evaluated by the structured on road driving test and with the driving related laboratory tests. Patients themselves were not capable of evaluating their own ability reliably. CONCLUSION: Driving ability is greatly decreased in patients with even mild to moderate Parkinson's disease. The evaluation of patients' driving ability is very difficult to carry out without psychological and psychomotor tests and/or a driving test.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Heikkila, V.-M., Turkka, J., Korpelainen, J., Kallanranta, T., & Summala, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- ORCID
- Summala, H
- Venue
- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 1998-03-01
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 325-330
- ISSN
- 0022-3050 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2170019
- OpenAlex
- W2172205270
- Semantic Scholar
- e1154630c76c8702aa79a92a153a1fcacc6769c5
- Cited by
- 155
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Older Adults Driving Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality › Traffic and Road Safety
- Keywords
- Parkinson's disease, driving ability, driving assessment, on-road driving test, psychomotor impairment, cognitive impairment, clinician assessment
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Automobile Driver Examination, Automobile Driving, Cognition, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Parkinson Disease, Psychomotor Performance, Severity of Illness Index, Reproducibility of Results, Bias, Case-Control Studies
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