Objective: The attitudes of patients towards driving a car while taking medication with psychotropic side effects is unclear. A growing number of patients use these psychotropic medicines on a daily basis, and this may interfere with their ability to drive a car.
Methods: By means of a survey, we examined attitudes towards driving while using psychotropic medicinal drugs and the effect of warning labels on the decision whether to drive a car or not in patients with chronic pain.
Results: Fifty-eight of 100 patients possessing a driver's license used psychotropic medication. Despite warning labels affixed on the packages that these drugs might impair driving ability, the majority (71%) of these patients continued driving a car. A point of concern is that 40% of these patients reported not to be more cautious in traffic after taking psychotropic drugs.
Conclusion: The results of this survey indicate that drug warning labels applied by Dutch pharmacies do not significantly change attitudes towards driving a car in patients taking medicinal drugs with psychotropic side effects. Future road-safety campaigns should pay more attention to the impairing effects of psychotropic drugs on driving.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15389580600943005 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
An assessment of compliance with proposed regulations to restrict on-package marketing of packaged foods to improve nutrition in South Africa.
BMC Nutr
January 2025
Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Background: Ultra-processed products (UPPs), high in sugar, fat and sodium, contribute to increasing burdens of obesity and non-communicable diseases in South Africa (SA). Increased consumption and acceptability of UPPs is driven, in part by aggressive marketing. Front of package labelling laws, particularly warning labels (WLs) coupled with marketing restrictions, have been recommended to improve consumer awareness of unhealthy products, incentivise reformulation and underpin other interventions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCalorie (energy) labelling for changing selection and consumption of food or alcohol.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
January 2025
Behaviour and Health Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Background: Overconsumption of food and consumption of any amount of alcohol increases the risk of non-communicable diseases. Calorie (energy) labelling is advocated as a means to reduce energy intake from food and alcoholic drinks. However, there is continued uncertainty about these potential impacts, with a 2018 Cochrane review identifying only a small body of low-certainty evidence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImpact of warning pictorials and size on perceived effectiveness of cigar warning labels in a nationally representative between-subjects experiment.
BMJ Open
January 2025
Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Background: People who smoke cigars often have misperceptions about the associated risks, contributing to rises in smoking rates. This study investigates the perceived warning effectiveness (PWE) of health warning labels (HWLs) on cigar packages. We tested the impact of warning type and warning size in the HWLs on PWE and other health outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNavigating Medical Device Product Liability in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Obstet Gynecol
January 2025
Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; and Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Liberty, North Carolina.
Medical devices are an essential component of the practice of obstetrics and gynecology. These devices may, at times, suffer from a defect or failure, which could result in a product liability lawsuit when associated with patient harm. Medical device product liability lawsuits are directed toward the device manufacturer when a patient suffers harm because of a device.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!