Hooper Visual Organization Test (VOT) as a Predictor of Driving Status of Individuals with Dementia

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dc.contributor.advisorDoug A. Main
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSusan Franks
dc.creatorBudd, Margaret Anne
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-22T21:13:32Z
dc.date.available2019-08-22T21:13:32Z
dc.date.issued2004-04-01
dc.date.submitted2013-11-25T17:34:14-08:00
dc.description.abstractHooper Visual Organization Test (VOT) (Hooper, 1983) items were correlated with driving status of geriatric individuals with dementia to help screen for high-risk drivers. A retrospective review of 87 medical chart on patients, 60-91 years, who underwent a neurocognitive evaluation at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, Texas, with a complete VOT, driving status, dementia diagnosis, and demographic descriptors (age, gender, marital status) were selected for analysis. Of the 55.2% participants who reported a current driving status, VOT scores ranged: 20.8% normal, 43.8% mildly impaired, 31.3% moderately impaired, and 4.2% severely impaired. An item analysis was followed by direct logistic regression analysis which correctly predicted 85% of the drivers and 74% of the nondrivers with an overall success rate of 80.5% (p=.001). The Wald criterion selected 4 VOT items as reliably predicting driving status: items 6 (hammer), 19 (teapot/pitcher), 22 (mouse), and 25 (block). Models run with gender and/or marital status was not reliably different. These 4 items may add to a brief screening test to identify drivers with dementia potentially at risk. In addition, the large number of current drivers scoring in the impaired range suggests that individuals, their families and others are not intervening with driving behavior, possibly placing the individuals and public at risk.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12503/29169
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectBehavior and Behavior Mechanisms
dc.subjectCommunity Health and Preventive Medicine
dc.subjectDiseases
dc.subjectGeriatrics
dc.subjectMedicine and Health Sciences
dc.subjectMental and Social Health
dc.subjectMental Disorders
dc.subjectOther Mental and Social Health
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectVision Science
dc.subjectHooper Visual Organization Test
dc.subjectgeriatric individuals
dc.subjectdementia
dc.subjectdriving behaviors
dc.subjectpredictors
dc.subjectintervention
dc.titleHooper Visual Organization Test (VOT) as a Predictor of Driving Status of Individuals with Dementia
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thesis.degree.departmentSchool of Public Health
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Public Health

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