ADHD, depression, and motor vehicle crashes: A prospective cohort study of continuously-monitored, real-world driving.

ABSTRACT: ADHD is associated with automobile crashes, traffic fatalities, and serious road trauma, but it is unclear whether this risk is (a) driven by ADHD symptoms specifically, and (b) unique to ADHD or transdiagnostic across psychiatric disabilities, such as depression, that also have concentration problems as core symptoms. The current study provides the first prospective, continuously-monitored evaluation of crash risk related to ADHD symptoms, including the first on-road comparison of ADHD with another high-prevalence psychiatric disability (depression). A probability-based sample of 3226 drivers from six U.S. sites, including subsamples with self-reported ADHD (n = 274) and depression (n = 251), consented to have their vehicles outfitted with sophisticated data acquisition technologies to co

SUBMITTER: Aduen PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5889746 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature