Motor vehicle driving in high incidence psychiatric disability: Comparison of drivers with ADHD, depression, and no known psychopathology
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Design and overview
The SHRP-2 Naturalistic Driving Study consists of 3,600 drivers from six U.S. sites (New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Florida, and North Carolina). A detailed description of study recruitment, participants, and methodology is provided in Antin et al. (2011). Briefly, participants were selected through a probability-based sampling approach and consented to have their vehicles outfitted with a sophisticated data acquisition system to capture day-to-day driving data continuously for
Preliminary analyses
Data were available for over 99% of the 3,259 cases for all dependent and independent variables (range = 99.1%–99.8%; N = 7 to 31 missing cases) with the exception of self-reported income (16.2% missing; N = 2,731 respondents).2 Chi-square tests supported a Missing At Random (MAR) assumption; the probability of missing data did not vary significantly as a
Discussion
The current study used a large, nationwide sample to examine the relative risk of motor vehicle violations, collisions, collision-related injuries, and collision fault associated with ADHD and Depression relative to drivers with no known psychopathology. To our knowledge, this is the first study to compare drivers with multiple forms of high incidence psychopathology while also accounting for known risk factors of increased violation and collision rates. Using the nationally representative
Role of funding source
Preparation of this manuscript was funded in part by a UVa Curry School of Education Foundation grant (PI: Kofler) from the Galant Family. The sponsor had no role in design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript. Aduen and Kofler had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Contributors
All authors contributed substantially to the conceptualization and development of the study.
Conflict of interest
The authors have no conflicts of interest to report.
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