Effectiveness of a Driving Intervention on Safe Community Mobility for Returning Combat Veterans
Abstract
This study is a follow-on to prior DOD funded work Efficacy of a Driving Intervention Program on Safe Community Mobility for Combat Veterans. Funding for the Effectiveness (current) study was activated in October 2015. In the 2017-2018 cycle, we completed our staffing with an occupational therapist/ Certified Driving Rehabilitation Specialist in place beginning 6/1/2017. Team training was completed and subject recruitment/testing began July 2017. As of April 2018 we have 12 Veterans enrolled in the five session protocol, half randomized to the occupational therapy driving intervention (OT-DI) and half to the control arm, traffic safety education (TSE). To enhance the rigor of the testing we are ensuring that the simulator drives have an appropriate randomization of events to prevent learning effect. Simulator vendor Drive Safety completed creation of the novel drives and the versions for training and testing in November 2017. In Fall 2017, we also enhanced the traffic safety education curriculum to an up-to-date version with increased interactivity. In addition to on-going recruitment and testing, our team has been able to disseminate findings from the efficacy study on a state and national level. This includes XX publications to date (XX journal articles and one book chapter), and XX state and national level presentations. Our future directions include examining real-world driving through analysis of driver license records to determine the level of violations, citations, and crashes in the years pre and post intervention.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2018
- Accession Number
- AD1060281
Entities
People
- Sandra Winter
Organizations
- University of Florida