In her own words: a phenomenological analysis of stories told by female service members and veterans after traumatic brain injury.

Purpose: Given the majority of Service Members and Veterans (SMV) who have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are male, the female experience with TBI has not been captured in the general understanding of TBI. To improve understanding of the experience of female SMV after TBI utilizing a qualitative phenomenological approach on stories as told by female SMV.

Materials And Methods: Ten female SMV participated in storytelling workshops and created video stories documenting their personal experience with TBI.

Attitudes: Mediators of the Relation between Health and Driving in Older Adults.

We examined the relations between perceived health (e.g., self-perceived health status) and driving self-regulatory practices (e.

Psychosocial Constructs as Possible Moderators of Self-Reported Driving Restrictions.

To date, associations between psychosocial driving variables and behaviour have been examined only cross-sectionally. Using three waves of data collected annually from 928 older drivers (mean age = 76.21 years; 62% male) enrolled in the Candrive II cohort, we examined in this study whether changes in attitudes and perceptions towards driving (decisional balance and day and night driving comfort) were associated with changes in older adults' reported restrictions in driving practices and perceived driving abilities.

Just the facts: changes in older driver attitudes after exposure to educational interventions.

Objectives: To examine the change in cognitive processing as measured by consciousness raising and attitudes toward driving following educational interventions for older adults.

Methods: Older adults who viewed a research-based applied theater production about older driver safety (n = 110) were compared to those who were exposed to a print-based publication available to all drivers (n = 100).

Results: After viewing the play developed with input from older adults and others, older adult viewers' attitudes toward driving shifted in a manner consistent with an increased openness or willingness to consider changing their driving behavior.

Associations between age, gender, psychosocial and health characteristics in the Candrive II study cohort.

The relations among driving-related psychosocial measures (e.g., driving comfort, attitudes toward driving) and measures of self-reported health were examined in the context of driver characteristics (i.

A reduced scoring system for the Clock Drawing Test using a population-based sample.

Background: Many scoring systems exist for clock drawing task variants, which are common dementia screening measures, but all have been derived from clinical samples. This study evaluates and combines errors from two published scoring systems for the Clock Drawing Test (CDT), the Lessig and Tuokko methods, in order to create a simple yet optimal scoring procedure to screen for dementia using a Canadian population-based sample.

Methods: Clock-drawings from 356 participants (80 with dementia, 276 healthy controls) from the Canadian Study on Health and Aging were analyzed using logistic regression and Receiver Operating Characteristic curves to determine a new, simplified, population-based CDT scoring system.