Driving Ability Among People With Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)

Tel Aviv University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Mild Cognitive Impairment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01608256

ק0012012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Purpose of this study is to assess the effect of MCI on driving ability by using on road driving test. The relationship between their driving outcome and their cognitive decline will be examined.

Full description

Each subject will be evaluated by test battery which is accepted to driving assessment and include: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Clock Drawing Task, Color Trail Test, Motor Free Visual Perception, Visual Spatial Search Task , Awareness Questionnaire and on road driving test.

The difference between outcome measures of the on road test between the patient group and the control group will be tested. The correlation between outcome measures of the on road test and the cognitive tests will be examined.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment(given by a neurologist), valid driver's license and driving experience of at least a year.

Exclusion criteria

• people diagnosed with other neurological damage such as: dementia, CVA and head injury, people with sensory or motor impairment

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

mild cognitive impairment

Description:

men and women, aged 50 to 70. The inclusion criteria are:diagnosis of MCI (given by a neurologist), valid driver's license and driving experience of at least a year. the exclusion criteria are: people diagnosed with other neurological damage such as: dementia, CVA and head injury, people with sensory or motor impairment.

Healthy people

Description:

Men and women, ages 50-70. the inclusion criteria are: healthy people with out neurological disease or psychiatric illness, have valid driver's license and driving experience of at least a year.