Mobile Telephone Use and Reaction Time in Drivers With Glaucoma.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Combining mobile telephone use with driving is not unusual. However, distracted driving limits driving performance because of limited capacity for persons to divide attention.

Objectives

To investigate the frequency of mobile telephone use while driving and to assess whether patients with glaucoma had a disproportionate decrease in driving performance while conversing on a mobile telephone compared with healthy participants.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional study of surveys collected from 112 patients with glaucoma and 70 control participants investigating mobile telephone use while driving. A randomly selected subgroup of 37 patients with glaucoma and 28 controls drove in a driving simulator to investigate peripheral event detection perfor

SUBMITTER: Ogata NG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6481446 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature