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Driving simulator performance of Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Driving simulator performance of Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Melissa M. Amick, PhD; Melissa Kraft, PsyD; Regina McGlinchey, PhD. Aim

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Driving simulator performance of Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

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  1. Driving simulator performance of Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars Melissa M. Amick, PhD; Melissa Kraft, PsyD; Regina McGlinchey, PhD

  2. Aim • Examine driving simulator performance in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans who self-report poorer driving safety postdeployment. • Relevance • Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of disability, hospitalization, and outpatient visits across military. • Veterans have higher fatality rates (23.6/100,000) than nondeployed Veterans (15.9/100,000) and general U.S. population (16.3/100,000).

  3. Method • 25 Veterans and 25 age- and education-matched civilian controls participated in 30 min driving simulator assessment that measured frequency of driving errors. • All participants self-reported driving history and Veterans completed Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist–Military Version.

  4. Results • Veterans (vs civilian controls): • Committed more speeding errors. • Reported poorer lifetime driving record. • Exploratory analyses revealed association between increasing errors on driving simulator with increasing symptoms of PTSD. • However, correlation not significant.

  5. Conclusion • Findings suggest that: • Veterans perform more poorly on objective evaluation of driving safety. • PTSD could be associated with worse performance on this standardized driving simulator assessment.

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