TY - GEN
T1 - Cognitive screening tools for predicting unsafe driving behavior among senior drivers
T2 - 58th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2014
AU - Vanlaar, Ward
AU - McKiernan, Anna
AU - McAteer, Heather
AU - Robertson, Robyn
AU - Mayhew, Dan
AU - Carr, David
AU - Brown, Steve
AU - Holmes, Erin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - As Canada's elderly continue to represent the fastest growing population in Canada, there has been an increasing need for effective and efficient screening tools for senior drivers, especially ones which identify possible cognitive impairments. Thus, the objective of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis of the available research surrounding the predictive value of pencil-and-paper cognitive screening tools. A systematic review of existing literature was conducted, with a final sample of 15 evaluation outcomes that identified 10 different pencil-and-paper tools. Multiple techniques were used to evaluate the data, including random effects modeling, meta-regression analysis and tests for bias, including publication bias. Finally, a multilevel meta-regression model was used to account for dependence of evaluation outcomes coming from the same study. A small to medium-sized significant pooled effect of 1.94 was found, indicating that when pencil-and-paper cognitive screening tools predict a driver is unsafe, there is a 94% greater chance that this driver will exhibit unsafe driving behaviors. Results, however, only provide partial evidence to inform the selection of pencil-and-paper cognitive screening tools, as it was not possible to unequivocally identify which tool performed best.
AB - As Canada's elderly continue to represent the fastest growing population in Canada, there has been an increasing need for effective and efficient screening tools for senior drivers, especially ones which identify possible cognitive impairments. Thus, the objective of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis of the available research surrounding the predictive value of pencil-and-paper cognitive screening tools. A systematic review of existing literature was conducted, with a final sample of 15 evaluation outcomes that identified 10 different pencil-and-paper tools. Multiple techniques were used to evaluate the data, including random effects modeling, meta-regression analysis and tests for bias, including publication bias. Finally, a multilevel meta-regression model was used to account for dependence of evaluation outcomes coming from the same study. A small to medium-sized significant pooled effect of 1.94 was found, indicating that when pencil-and-paper cognitive screening tools predict a driver is unsafe, there is a 94% greater chance that this driver will exhibit unsafe driving behaviors. Results, however, only provide partial evidence to inform the selection of pencil-and-paper cognitive screening tools, as it was not possible to unequivocally identify which tool performed best.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84951125073&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1541931214581427
DO - 10.1177/1541931214581427
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84951125073
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 2048
EP - 2052
BT - 2014 International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2014
PB - Human Factors an Ergonomics Society Inc.
Y2 - 27 October 2014 through 31 October 2014
ER -