Performance Analysis of Driving Ability (P-Drive): Investigating Construct Validity and Concordance of Australasian Data.

On-road assessment is optimal for determining medical fitness-to-drive but unreliable if determined by global pass/fail decisions alone. Occupational therapists need standardized, psychometrically sound on-road scoring procedures. Performance Analysis of Driving Ability (P-Drive) is a promising on-road test developed in Sweden, but it has not been standardized for Australasia.

Predicting Fitness to Drive for Medically At-Risk Drivers Using Touchscreen DriveSafe DriveAware.

Importance: Occupational therapists require valid cognitive fitness-to-drive tools to advise drivers in this high-stakes area.

Objective: To examine the psychometric properties and predictive validity of data gathered with the touchscreen DriveSafe DriveAware (DSDA).

Design: Prospective study that compared a screening tool with a criterion standard.

Converting the DriveSafe subtest of DriveSafe DriveAware for touchscreen administration.

Background: DriveSafe measures awareness of the driving environment. It is one subtest of DriveSafe DriveAware, a cognitive fitness-to-drive screening instrument. We converted DriveSafe to a touchscreen format for ease of administration; this necessitated the development of an automatic data collection and scoring system to reflect the decision that would otherwise have been made by an expert rater.

Contribution of off-road tests to predicting on-road performance: a critical review of tests.

Background/aim: Driving is an essential activity of daily living. Because it is easily disrupted by illness or injury, it is a common subject of occupational therapy assessment. Assessments of driving are critically important and carry legal implications for therapists.