Driving safety in Parkinson's disease

Neurology. 2002 Dec 10;59(11):1787-8. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000035636.83680.c6.

Abstract

In this study, 39 patients with PD and 25 control subjects without neurologic disease completed testing in a driving simulator. PD patients had more total collisions on the driving simulator than control subjects (t = -3.7, p < 0.01). In PD patients, collisions were associated with Hoehn and Yahr stage (chi(2) = 12.4, p = 0.006) and correlated with Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale score (r = 0.5, p < 0.01).

MeSH terms

  • Accidents, Traffic / psychology
  • Aged
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Automobile Driving / psychology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Parkinson Disease / psychology*
  • Psychomotor Performance / physiology
  • Safety