Conceptualizing and Measuring Confidence in Older Drivers: Development of the Day and Night Driving Comfort Scales

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 630-640

  Myers, Anita M ^a   Paradis, Josee A ^a   Blanchard, Robin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aged; Aged 80 and over; Automobiles; Rehabilitation; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANADA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DAY DRIVING COMFORT SCALE; DRIVING ABILITY; DRIVING CONFIDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NIGHT; NIGHT DRIVING COMFORT SCALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; RASCH ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VELOCITY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVER EXAMINATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 40949109353     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.09.037     Document Type: Article

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