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Driving SAFE
— development of a knowledge test for drivers with dementia | | Author(s) | Geri Adler, Susan Rottunda, Kathy Christensen |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 5, no 2, May 2006 |
| Pages | pp 213-222 |
| Source | http://www.dem.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Driving capability ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Driving SAFE (Safety Assessment for the Elderly), a 39-item written questionnaire examines knowledge of common road signs and traffic safety regulations, has its origins in four US States' Departments of Public Safety. In this American study, 75 drivers with dementia and 80 non-demented older drivers completed SAFE and a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Using item analysis, 15 items were selected for a screening test. The internal consistency reliability of the test was 0.74, while that for all 39 questions was 0.79. Patient and control means on the test differed significantly. MMSE scores accounted for only 16% of the variance in driving knowledge scores in the dementia patients. Results suggest that it is possible to develop a knowledge-based driving instrument that can successfully be administered to patients with diagnoses of mild to moderate dementia. Drivers with dementia demonstrated significantly poorer knowledge of driving regulations than the control group. However, the final score on SAFE was not well predicted by the MMSE, suggesting that direct assessment of driving knowledge is important to driving assessment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060609210 A |
| Classmark | EA: OPF: 4C: 7T |
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