Decreased driving ability in people with Parkinson's disease
| Autor: | Veli Matti Heikkila, T. Kallanranta, J. Turkka, Heikki Summala, J. Korpelainen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Automobile Driving Parkinson's disease Driving test media_common.quotation_subject Poison control Neuropsychological Tests Severity of Illness Index Physical medicine and rehabilitation Cognition Bias Severity of illness medicine Humans Driving instructor media_common Aged Psychomotor learning business.industry people.profession Reproducibility of Results Parkinson Disease Middle Aged medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Case-Control Studies Papers Physical therapy Automobile Driver Examination Surgery Aptitude Neurology (clinical) business people Psychomotor Performance |
| Zdroj: | University of Helsinki |
| Popis: | 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 insufficent 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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