Driving Ability Among People With Mild Cognitive Impairment

Assessing the Effect of MCI on Driving Ability by Using on Road Driving Test. The Relationship Between Their Driving Outcome and Their Cognitive Decline Will be Examined

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01608256

Acronym

MCI

Enrollment

Registered

2012-05-31

Start date

2012-06-30

Completion date

2014-06-30

Last updated

2012-05-31

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Conditions

Mild Cognitive Impairment

Keywords

mild cognitive impairment, Automobile Driving, cognitive aspects

Brief summary

The Purpose of this study is to assess the effect of MCI on driving ability by using on road driving test. The relationship between their driving outcome and their cognitive decline will be examined.

Detailed description

Each subject will be evaluated by test battery which is accepted to driving assessment and include: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Clock Drawing Task, Color Trail Test, Motor Free Visual Perception, Visual Spatial Search Task , Awareness Questionnaire and on road driving test. The difference between outcome measures of the on road test between the patient group and the control group will be tested. The correlation between outcome measures of the on road test and the cognitive tests will be examined.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

50 Years to 70 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment(given by a neurologist), valid driver's license and driving experience of at least a year.

Exclusion criteria

* people diagnosed with other neurological damage such as: dementia, CVA and head injury, people with sensory or motor impairment

Countries

Israel

Contacts

Primary ContactAreej Wishahi, B.A.

areej-joda@yahoo.com

Outcome results