Predictors Associated With Maintaining Driving in Old Age

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aged, 80 and Over

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire; Other: Semi-structured interviews

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05872490

GA-2021-06

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this observational study is to learn about predictors associated with maintaining driving in old age. The main questions it aims to answer are :

• which and how medical factors can influence stopping or maintaining driving (quantitative research)
• how social environment can influence stopping or maintaining driving (quantitative research)
• what are the needs of all the actors in the field (qualitative research)
• know about the opinions and practices of all the actors in the field (qualitative research) Participants will be ask to answer questions in an interview taking about an hour. Quantitative research will ask participants to fill out a questionnaire about social environment.

Full description

FAMACO is a project led by Gérontopôle Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (AURA) and Chaire Santé des Ainés of the Jean Monet University, supported by the Observatoire National Interministériel de la Sécurité Routière (ONISR), that aims prevent the loss of autonomy of the elderly population by identifying predictors associated with maintaining driving in old age. This is a mixed quantitative and qualitative prospective study.

Quantitative study identify medical factors linked to stopping driving by analysis data from "PROnostic of factors OF cardiovascular or neurovascular disease" (PROOF) cohort. In addition, a questionnaire on the social environment was addressed to participants.

Qualitative study focus on identifying the expectations and needs of all concern populations : elderly divers, elderly former drivers, general practitioner, geriatrician, certified driver's license physician, law enforcement, driving instructors and emergency services. This qualitative study will be carried out on three different sites : Saint-Etienne, Marseille, and Lille.

Enrollment: 657 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria :

• being part of one of the population studied (older 65 people ; attending physicians ; law enforcement ; certified driver's license ; physicians ; geriatricians ; driving instructors ; personal assistance services)
• live in Saint-Etienne, Marseille or Lille

Exclusion criteria :

None

Trial design

657 participants in 7 patient groups

Older 80 people

Description:

Semi-structured interviews were conducted for the qualitative research. In addition, a driving habits questionnaire was administered. To complete this questionnaire, medical data from the PROOF cohort were collected.The PROOF cohort is a prospective study for which enrollment began in 2001. The main objective is to evaluate the predictive value of Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) activity and its decline during follow-up on the occurrence of serious and cerebral events, and on all-cause mortality, in a general population of subjects of homogeneous age. Participants were included in the study if they were 65 years of age (plus or minus 2 years) at the time of inclusion and registered on the electoral list of the city of St Etienne, had not had a previous myocardial infarction or stroke and were non-insulin dependent.

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire

Other: Semi-structured interviews

Attending physicians

Description:

Semi-structured interviews were conducted for the qualitative research

Treatment:

Other: Semi-structured interviews

law enforcement

Description:

Semi-structured interviews were conducted for the qualitative research

Treatment:

Other: Semi-structured interviews

certified driver's license physicians

Description:

Semi-structured interviews were conducted for the qualitative research

Treatment:

Other: Semi-structured interviews

geriatricians

Description:

Semi-structured interviews were conducted for the qualitative research

Treatment:

Other: Semi-structured interviews

driving instructors

Description:

Semi-structured interviews were conducted for the qualitative research

Treatment:

Other: Semi-structured interviews

personal assistance services

Description:

Semi-structured interviews were conducted for the qualitative research

Treatment:

Other: Semi-structured interviews