Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2025
College/Unit
School of Medicine
Department/Program/Center
Occupational Therapy
Abstract
Occupational therapists and driving evaluators with limited experience may have difficulty interpreting off-road driving assessments, such as the Occupational Therapy–Driver Off-Road Assessment battery (OT-DORA) or a driving simulator. Normative data may assist evaluators with the interpretation of off-road driving assessments. Data was collected from 19 young adult drivers to establish age-specific normative data for several assessments in the OT-DORA and the DriveSafety Driving simulator. Normative performance was defined as scores within one standard deviation of the mean, and impaired performance was defined as scores greater than two mean standard deviations. The data was also analyzed to determine which questions were most frequently missed on the Road Law and Road Craft Test and the Mini-Mental State Exam. The normative data presented in the results of this study may be used to identify impairments in the skills assessed by each assessment (e.g., attention, visual scanning, reaction time, etc.) in young adult drivers compared to other healthy young adult drivers. Further research is needed before this data can be used to make decisions about whether a young adult is fit or unfit to drive.
Digital Commons Citation
Smith, Kiersten; Gray, Richelle; and Woods, SueAnn R., "Occupational Therapy’s Role in Driving Evaluations: Age-specific Driving Normative Data" (2025). Graduate Student Scholarship. 35.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/grad_scholarship/35