Journal
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 184-192Publisher
INFORMA HEALTHCARE
DOI: 10.1080/11038120802087600
Keywords
Automobile driving; metacognition; occupational therapy; rehabilitation; simulation; stroke
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- Postgraduate School of Health Care Sciences at Karolinska Institutet
- Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research
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The aim of this study was to explore and describe awareness of driving disability in people with driving difficulties after stroke. The study comprised a consecutive sample of 38 participants with stroke who showed difficulties in a technically advanced, interactive driving simulator. Driving ability in the simulator was measured using Performance Analysis of Driving Ability (P-Drive). Awareness of driving disability was measured using a modified version of Assessment of Awareness of Disability (AAD), measuring the discrepancy between observed driving actions and self-reported disability after a driving evaluation in a simulator. A majority of the participants (n =36) demonstrated driving ability that was below the cut-off criterion for P-Drive. Furthermore, a majority of the items measuring awareness of driving disability were scored low, indicating that participants with stroke who did not pass a driving evaluation also had limited awareness of driving disability. A General Linear Model analysis indicated that awareness of driving disability and cognitive screening outcome explained 74% of the variance in driving ability. This study indicated that a majority of the people with stroke who fail a driving evaluation also have limited awareness of their disability, which indicates the need to address awareness in driving evaluations.
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