Driving fitness in clinically stable outpatients with chronic schizophrenia.

Introduction: Driving motorized vehicles is an integral part of individual mobility and a key parameter for employment and social integration. This naturalistic, cross-sectional study investigated the associations between driving fitness, residual symptomatology, olanzapine equivalent, and extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) in long term stable outpatients with schizophrenia.

Methods: Beside sociodemographic data, and driving habits, residual symptoms, and EPS were assessed using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), and the Modified Simpson Angus Scale (MSAS).