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The Development of the Computer-based Driving Situational Awareness Task for Brain Injury

Kim,Young-geun 1 Lee, Jae Sik 2

1대구보건대학교
2부산대학교 심리학과

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ABSTRACT

Objective : The purpose of study is to prove the validity of a computer-based situational driving awareness taskdeveloped to evaluate the cognitive functions related with driving after a brain injury. Methods : For this purpose, 73 patients (CVA, TBI) participated in the situation awareness test, andneuropsychological cognitive assessment tools were applied. The participants were evaluated based on a ‘drivingsituational awareness task’ and Mini-Mental State Examination for Korean (MMSE-K), their working memory,and a coding subtest on the Korean Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Ⅳ (K-WAIS-Ⅳ) in order to verify theconcurrent validity. The patients participated in a Star Cancellation Test and Trail Making Test A, B (TMT A, B). Experts in driving situational awareness, a loss adjuster, and occupational therapists participated in verifying thecontent validity. Results : The results were as follows. The correlation between the coding subtest in K-WAIS-Ⅳ and the ‘drivingsituational awareness task’ was the highest. The best cognitive assessment tool predicting the situationalawareness was the coding subtest. The TMT A, B and Star Cancellation Test are related with the driving situationawareness task. Conclusion : A ‘driving situational awareness task’ is appropriate in evaluating cognitive functions related withdriving performance. These results will support occupational therapists in their plans to conduct a cognitiveassessment related to situation awareness while driving.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.