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Awareness Of Deficits And On-Road Driving Performance Among Persons With Acquired Brain Injury, Julie Ann Griffen
Awareness Of Deficits And On-Road Driving Performance Among Persons With Acquired Brain Injury, Julie Ann Griffen
Wayne State University Dissertations
This study examined the relationship of neuropsychological and on-road driving evaluations among adults with acquired brain injury (ABI), and the extent to which that relationship is moderated by awareness of deficit. Awareness of deficit may partly explain mixed findings regarding the relationship between cognitive function and driving outcomes, inasmuch as persons aware of their deficits attempt to compensate for them accordingly, thereby minimizing deficit-related risk.
Sixty-two pairs of adults with ABI and significant-other informants recruited from a driving evaluation center and 40 healthy controls participated. Adults with ABI and controls completed neuropsychological and on-road evaluations.
Awareness of deficit was directly …