Rehabilitation of Drivers with Brain Injury Using Virtual Reality Based Driving Simulator
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
;
: 271-275, 2009.
Article
in Korean
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| ID: wpr-723446
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To investigate the effect of driving-simulator based training for the persons with brain injury.METHOD:
Twenty-seven brain injury patients and 19 healthy volunteers were included in this study. Driving simulator program was composed of an aptitude test (which have 4 items) and simulated road driving. The brain injury patients had 4 sessions of driving simulator training with assessment performed during the first and the last session. Healthy volunteers underwent only one driving simulator session for assessment. To evaluate subjective satisfaction in terms of training effect and the sense for the real, a survey was administered after the training.RESULTS:
In brain injury patients, there were significant improvements in both aptitude test and simulated road driving test after training (p <0.01). There were no significant differences between the scores of patients taken at the last session and the scores of healthy volunteers, while the scores of patients taken at the first session were significantly lower than those of healthy volunteers. The patients group reported positively in terms of training effect (81.5%) and the sense for the real (62.9%).CONCLUSION:
A driving-simulator based training was effective for brain injury patients to regain driving skill.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Aptitude Tests
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Brain
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Brain Injuries
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
Year:
2009
Type:
Article
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