Clinical trial NCT05872490: Predictors Associated With Maintaining Driving in Old Age
Official title: Predictive Factors Associated With Continued Driving in Old Age : a Mixed Methods Approach
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Aged, 80 and Over
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Gerontopole Auvergne Rhone-Alpes (AURA)
name: Jean Monnet University
name: University Hospital, Lille
name: Centre de Recherche Hospitalier Universitaire de Marseille
First posted: 2023-05-24
Enrollment: 657
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: 7 populations are included in the study: older 65 people ; attending physicians ; law enforcement ; certified driver's license ; physicians ; geriatricians ; driving instructors ; personal assistance services. For each of them, the respondents are based in one of the three investigation sites: Saint-Etienne, Lille or Marseille. For people aged 65 and over, a questionnaire is also distributed.

Brief summary: The goal of this observational study is to learn about predictors associated with maintaining driving in old age. The main questions it aims to answer are :

* which and how medical factors can influence stopping or maintaining driving (quantitative research)
* how social environment can influence stopping or maintaining driving (quantitative research)
* what are the needs of all the actors in the field (qualitative research)
* know about the opinions and practices of all the actors in the field (qualitative research) Participants will be ask to answer questions in an interview taking about an hour. Quantitative research will ask participants to fill out a questionnaire about social environment.

Detailed description: FAMACO is a project led by Gérontopôle Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (AURA) and Chaire Santé des Ainés of the Jean Monet University, supported by the Observatoire National Interministériel de la Sécurité Routière (ONISR), that aims prevent the loss of autonomy of the elderly population by identifying predictors associated with maintaining driving in old age. This is a mixed quantitative and qualitative prospective study.

Quantitative study identify medical factors linked to stopping driving by analysis data from "PROnostic of factors OF cardiovascular or neurovascular disease" (PROOF) cohort. In addition, a questionnaire on the social environment was addressed to participants.

Qualitative study focus on identifying the expectations and needs of all concern populations : elderly divers, elderly former drivers, general practitioner, geriatrician, certified driver's license physician, law enforcement, driving instructors and emergency services. This qualitative study will be carried out on three different sites : Saint-Etienne, Marseille, and Lille.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria :

* being part of one of the population studied (older 65 people ; attending physicians ; law enforcement ; certified driver's license ; physicians ; geriatricians ; driving instructors ; personal assistance services)
* live in Saint-Etienne, Marseille or Lille

Exclusion criteria :

None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Views and representations of the different populations on the conduct of the elderly
timeFrame: Day 1
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Driving habits of elderly
timeFrame: Day 1
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Saint-Étienne
country: France
facility: Nathalie Barth
state: Loire
city: Lille
country: France
facility: François Puisieux
city: Marseille
country: France
facility: Sylvie Bonin-Guillaume
Study officials:
affiliation: GERONTOPOLE AURA
name: Nathalie BARTH, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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