Trial reportEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2009
Driving simulator performance and psychomotor functions of schizophrenic patients treated with antipsychotics.
Trial report in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Driving Performance Under Treatment of Most Frequently Prescribed Drugs for Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review of Patient Studies.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Pooled it
- The role of psychotropic medication, alcohol, illicit drugs, and suicidal intention in fatal motor vehicle accidents involving drivers with psychotic disorders.European journal of public health · 2026Article
- Driving Performance in Schizophrenia: The Role of Neurocognitive Correlates-A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
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- Utilizing Technology to Enhance the Ecological Validity of Cognitive and Functional Assessments in Schizophrenia: An Overview of the State-of-the-Art.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2024Article
- Driver assessment service for people with mental illness.Hong Kong journal of occupational therapy : HKJOT · 2019Article
- A review of impaired visual processing and the daily visual world in patients with schizophrenia.Nagoya journal of medical science · 2018Review
- Driving skills in unmedicated first- and recurrent-episode schizophrenic patients.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2017Article
- A randomized, crossover, placebo-controlled clinical trial to assess the sensitivity of the CRCDS Mini-Sim to the next-day residual effects of zopiclone.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2015Article
- [Driving ability with alcohol and drug dependence and schizophrenia].Der Nervenarzt · 2014Article
- [Driving ability with affective disorders and under psychotropic drugs].Der Nervenarzt · 2014Article
- Medications and impaired driving.The Annals of pharmacotherapy · 2014Review
- Antipsychotic-induced somnolence in mothers with schizophrenia.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2012Article
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Abstract
The objective of the study is to compare schizophrenic inpatients under antipsychotic monotherapy regarding simulated driving behaviour and psychomotor functions related to driving ability. Schizophrenic inpatients (n = 80) were tested before discharge to outpatient treatment. Data were collected with the computerized Act & React Testsystem and the Wiener Testsystem measuring visual perception, reaction time, attention, vigilance and stress-tolerance. Besides, patients underwent various driving simulations on a static driving simulator (FT-SR 200). Before discharge to outpatient treatment, about 25% of schizophrenic patients must be considered as severely impaired with respect to driving skills. Differences between treatment groups could be shown both in psychomotor measures and in driving simulator performance with a better test performance of patients treated with atypical antipsychotics. Controlling for age, psychopathologic symptoms and extrapyramidal signs, differences in psychomotor measures were most pronounced in concentration and vigilance. As mental disorders itself pose an increased risk of accidents, counselling patients with respect to differential effects of antipsychotic treatment is of great relevance. In addition to psychomotor tests computer-simulated driving seems to be a useful tool in assessing traffic safety under pharmacologic treatment.
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