Driving Behaviour in Depression: Findings from a Driving Simulator Study

Tsoutsi, Vagioula; Dikeos, Dimitris; Basta, Maria; Papadakaki, Maria

doi:10.3390/safety5040070

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“…Our results showed that the total score and the score of all MDBQ subscales were higher in the group with depression, which means that depression is negatively correlated with driving performance. Similar to our findings, previous studies have found that depression (independent of the severity) is associated with driving impairment (5,12).…”

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“…Most road accident studies have focused on socio-demographic characteristics and general personality as well as driving skills (11). While few studies have addressed driving performance considering depression and anxiety, their main purpose has often been the effects of medications, specifically antidepressants, and benzodiazepines, on road accidents (12)(13)(14).…”

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Assessing the Possible Effect of Depression on Driving Behavior: A Cross-sectional Study

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Background: Driving as a complex behavior pattern is influenced by a set of conscious and unconscious factors. One of the most important causes of traffic accidents in Iran is human factors, which include the driver's mental status, personality traits, mental illnesses, or psychiatric disorders. Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders affecting driving behavior. Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine whether depression may affect driving performance. Methods: This cross-sectional study was done on 100 participants who were divided into two groups, patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and the healthy control group. Driving behavior was assessed by the Manchester Driving Behavior Questionnaire (MDBQ), and three computerized tests [Tower of London Test, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), and reaction time] were used to evaluate the participants’ neuropsychiatric characteristics. The results were compared between the two groups using SPSS version 19. Results: There were 51 cases in the MDD group (male = 59%, female = 41%) and 50 patients in the non-depressed group (male = 22%, female = 78%). The mean age of the group with MDD and the control group was 38 ± 8 and 36 ± 9 years, respectively, with no significant differences (P = 0.23). The results showed that the highest mean reaction time (875 ± 198, P = 0.018) was related to the depressed non-risky drivers, and the depressed risky drivers showed the worse function in all domains of WCST (trials to complete first category: 28 ± 23, P = 0.002, total error: 33 ± 9, P = 0.001, and perseveration error: 15 ± 9, P = 0.009) in comparison with another group. Considering the mean score of the tower of London test, the non-depressed non-risky drivers showed the shortest time (219 ± 172, P = 0.001) spent on doing the task, while the depressed non-risky drivers showed the longest mean latency time (213 ± 96, P = 0.001). Conclusions: The findings of the present study showed that depression is associated with deficits in multiple cognitive domains, such as executive function, which may lead to a significant decline in different aspects of driving behavior.

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Assessing the Possible Effect of Depression on Driving Behavior: A Cross-sectional Study

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“…Although the majority of epidemiological research propose that depression has an impact on driver aggression, it's difficult to draw any firm conclusion from the previous studies (20). For example, interestingly, a recent preliminary driving simulator study with a small sample size (13 patients vs. 18 healthy controls) investigating behaviors of depressive patients reported that depression was negatively related to aggressive driving (36). About one third of depressive patients especially those with comorbid axis-2 disorders (e.g., antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder) display anger attacks that highly respond to 88 antidepressant treatment (37).…”

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Depresyonu ve anksiyete bozukluğu olan sürücülerde sürücü öfkesi ve öfke ifadesi

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2022

Gazi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi

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Previous research revealed that driving anger and negative anger expression styles are risk factors for accidents and violent behaviors in traffic. Besides, the feeling of anger often accompanies psychiatric disorders. These two situations raise the question of whether individuals receiving psychiatric treatment are angrier in traffic environments. This study aims to compare drivers with depression or anxiety disorders and drivers without any psychiatric disease regarding driver anger and anger expression styles. For this purpose, individuals with depression or anxiety disorders (n:119) were compared to the non-patient control group (n:119) in terms of driving anger and anger expression by using the driving anger scale (DAS) and the driving anger expression inventory (DAX). SPSS version 22.0 was used to analyze the data. According to the findings, there was no significant difference between patients with depression or anxiety disorders and the control group in terms of driving anger and driving anger expression based on the scores of DAS and DAX subscales (p >0.05). These findings indicate that drivers with depression or anxiety disorders do not differ from non-psychiatric drivers regarding angry thoughts and behaviors in traffic. These results provide a new perspective for psychiatrists responsible for psychotechnical and driving license assessments.

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“…Research in the broader field of road safety focuses primarily on the simulation of driver behavior, possibly of specific situations in traffic, using suitable case studies (typically from selected urban agglomerations) [25,26], or applications of simulation tools (software), such as MSC Adams [27][28][29], that enable the simulation of vehicle movement dynamics. The usage of simulations can well describe the technical impacts on the vehicle or infrastructure, including its effect on cargo behavior.…”

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Improvement of Road Safety through Appropriate Cargo Securing Using Outliers

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The article focuses on evaluating a transportation experiment that intends to improve road safety by analyzing transport shocks that significantly affect the system of securing the load, vehicle, driver, and other aspects. Within Europe, improper or insufficient securing of loads causes up to 25% of all cargo vehicle accidents. Our transport experiment consists of eight rides of a Tatra truck. The measured values of shocks (acceleration coefficients) are statistically evaluated. Three hypotheses are established for these purposes. First, it is proven that the probability distributions of the shocks values differ statistically significantly among individual rides, namely in their shape and median value. Thus further statistical analyses are performed separately for the individual rides, axes, and the accelerometer locations. These analyses prove significant exceedances of the normatively set limits given by the EN 12195-1:2010 standard, which is potentially risky. Especially for the z axis and y axis, the set 20% limit was exceeded in 75.0% and 56.3% of cases, respectively. In the case of the x axis, the established 20% limit was practically not exceeded at all. The analysis of exceeding the permitted limits (the statistical evaluation of the second and third established hypothesis) is based on boxplots that graphically describe the individual rides, as well as on the found contaminated log-normal distribution of the values of the acceleration coefficients in the individual rides. The last hypothesis regarding exceeding the double value of the permitted limit is rejected. Methods of statistical comparison are used during data analysis. The probability distribution of acceleration coefficients is modeled using a contaminated log-normal distribution.

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Driving Behaviour in Depression: Findings from a Driving Simulator Study

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Assessing the Possible Effect of Depression on Driving Behavior: A Cross-sectional Study

Assessing the Possible Effect of Depression on Driving Behavior: A Cross-sectional Study

Depresyonu ve anksiyete bozukluğu olan sürücülerde sürücü öfkesi ve öfke ifadesi

Improvement of Road Safety through Appropriate Cargo Securing Using Outliers

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