Development and Evaluation of a Brief UFOV Measure

描述(由申请人提供)：能够识别年长司机的撞车风险或停驾风险，具有明显的社会和医疗保健好处。尽管汽车安全技术取得了进步，但发生车祸的老年人更容易受伤或死亡，他们的伤势恢复时间要长得多。另一方面，流动性对于保持社会联系、独立运作、健康和令人满意的生活质量至关重要。随着越来越多的成年人在未来几十年达到高龄，通过及早发现技能损伤并随后进行干预来延长老年人的安全行动能力的有效方法可能会产生深远的影响。现在，从许多已发表和重复的研究中有大量证据表明，UFOV(R)测试作为一种复杂的处理速度的衡量标准，具有足够的敏感性和特异性来识别高危老年司机。然而，这项测试对于大规模筛查来说过于繁琐。本申请的重点是评估开发一种非常简短(2-3分钟)、自我管理的UFOV(R)测试的筛查版本的可行性，该测试可广泛用于高危老年司机的早期检测。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ability to identify older drivers at risk for either crash involvement or driving cessation has clear societal and health care benefits. Despite technological advances in automotive safety, older adults who are involved in vehicle crashes are more prone to suffer injury or death, and their recovery from injury is much longer. On the other hand, mobility is critical for maintaining social contacts, independent functioning, health, and a satisfying quality of life. Effective methods for extending safe mobility for older adults through early detection of skills impairments followed by intervention could have far reaching impact as more and more adults achieve advanced ages in coming decades. There is abundant evidence now, from many published and replicated studies, that a measure of complex speed of processing, the UFOV(r) test has adequate sensitivity and specificity to identify high-risk older drivers. However, this test is too cumbersome for screening on a mass basis. The focus of the present application is to evaluate the feasibility of developing a very brief (2-3 minute), self-administered screening version of the UFOV(r) test that could be widely used for early detection of high-risk older drivers.