title: Roadwise Review has limited congruence with actual driving performance of aging drivers.
abstract: The Roadwise Review (RR) CD-ROM has been proposed as one way for older drivers to self-evaluate the skills that support safe driving. To better gauge the utility of RR for that purpose, further validation of RR vis-à-vis measures of driving performance is needed. We carried out this study to provide such validation. We correlated the results of the standard Useful Field of View subtest 2 (UFOV-2) and Trail Making Test (TMT) parts A and B to the corresponding RR subsections on visual information processing and visual search. We further examined the correlations between on-road performance (based on demerit points) and RR results (absolute scores and number of problems identified). The correlations between UFOV-2, TMT and the relevant RR sections ranged from .46 to .61. The correlations between demerit points and RR absolute values ranged from -.40 to .50. The correlations between demerit points and the number of problems identified by RR ranged from -.24 to .45. Using a "pass/fail" approach we also failed to find a relationship with the number of problems. These results indicate limited convergence between findings obtained with RR and actual performance using standardized approaches. Such results emphasize the importance of developing a rigorous data synthesis process before attempting knowledge translation of material aimed at older drivers.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research on Safe Driving, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada; Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada; St. Joseph's Care Group, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: mbedard@lakeheadu.ca.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bédard
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research on Safe Driving, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Riendeau
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research on Safe Driving, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada; Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Weaver
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research on Safe Driving, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada.
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Clarkson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001334:Automobile Driving; D016251:CD-ROM; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014796:Visual Perception