Interventions to enhance driving skills in older adults: design of a randomized controlled trial of efficacy

Recent statistics from the National Road Safety Review suggests that with the increasing population of older road users crash rates are also rising, whereas these rates are declining for younger drivers. This is likely due to intensive investment in driver education targeting youth driving issues, with comparative lack of knowledge on effective methods to maintain older driver skills. We designed a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to investigate the efficacy of individually tailored refresher lessons against a group-based refresher course, on on-road driving performance and safety in older adults.

• Record URL:
  http://acrs.org.au/publications/acrs-conference-papers/acrs-database/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Extended abstract only
• Authors:
  • Eramudugolla, R
  • Price, J
  • Chopra, S
  • Kiely, K
  • Anstey, K J
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Conference, 2016, Canberra, ACT, Australia
• Publication Date: 2016-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 3p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 2016 Australasian Road Safety Conference, 6-8 September, Canberra, Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Aged drivers; Controlled trials; Crash rates; Crashes; Driver performance; Driver training; Drivers; Training
• Uncontrolled Terms: Safe systems (road users)
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ATRI Terms: Aged driver; Crash rate; Driver performance; Driver retraining; Randomized controlled trial
• ITRD Terms: 9102: Method
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01617890
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 28 2016 2:28PM