Yang YeongAe, Lee HyeJin
Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Inje University, Gimhae, Republic of Korea.
Institute of Aged Life Redesign, Inje University, Gimhae, Republic of Korea.
Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2021 Feb 5;14:465-472. doi: 10.2147/RMHP.S280249. eCollection 2021.
In this study, we investigated the effect of visual and cognitive functions of elderly taxi drivers on safe driving behavior. We aimed to identify factors that interfere with safe driving in an aging Korean society in elderly taxi drivers.
A total of 203 elderly taxi drivers, aged >65, working at 3 companies in a single city were assessed over 4 weeks from December 1 to December 30, 2017, using the Motor-Free Visual Perception Test, Korean Montreal Cognitive Assessment, and Korean Safe Driving Behavior Measure. To examine the effects of cognitive and visual functions on driving behavior, we performed a stepwise multiple linear regression analysis (p<0.05).
All 4 subdomains of safe driving behaviors were significantly correlated with the cognitive subdomains of attention and abstraction and the visual perception subdomains of visual closure 1 and figure-ground.
More systematic assessments of the relationship between driving behavior and cognitive and visual function in elderly individuals are needed.
在本研究中,我们调查了老年出租车司机的视觉和认知功能对安全驾驶行为的影响。我们旨在确定在韩国老龄化社会中,影响老年出租车司机安全驾驶的因素。
2017年12月1日至12月30日的4周时间里,我们使用无运动视觉感知测试、韩国蒙特利尔认知评估和韩国安全驾驶行为测量方法,对一个城市中3家公司的203名年龄大于65岁的老年出租车司机进行了评估。为了检验认知和视觉功能对驾驶行为的影响,我们进行了逐步多元线性回归分析(p<0.05)。
安全驾驶行为的所有4个亚领域均与注意力和抽象能力的认知亚领域以及视觉闭合1和图形背景的视觉感知亚领域显著相关。
需要对老年人驾驶行为与认知和视觉功能之间的关系进行更系统的评估。