Driving self-restriction and age: a study of emergency department patients

Table 1 Characteristics, opinions and experiences of participants, by age group (n = 311)

	Younger drivers		Older drivers
	(25–64 years) n = 178		(≥65 years) n = 133
	n	%	n	%
Age in years (median, IQR)	44	21	72	9
Female	103	58	68	51
Current frequency of driving
Everyday or almost everyday	147	83	101	76
Occasionally	23	13	24	18
Seldom	8	4.5	8	6
Self-rated general driving ability**
Good	158	89	129	97
Average	18	10	3	2.3
Poor	0	0.0	1	0.8
MVCs (as a driver) in past 12 months
0	155	87	123	92
1	18	10	7	5.3
2	2	1.1	2	1.5
Police stops (as a driver) in past 12 months*
0	132	74	117	88
1	38	21	13	10
2	4	2.3	1	0.8
3	2	1.1	1	0.8
In past 12 months, asked by someone to stop driving	2	1.1	4	3.0
Frequency of feeling confused, nervous or uncomfortable while driving
Often	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sometimes	14	7.9	16	12
Rarely	46	26	29	22
Never	112	63	88	62
Frequency of having vision problems while driving**
Often	2	1.1	2	1.5
Sometimes	9	5.1	4	3.0
Rarely	24	13	5	3.8
Never	137	77	122	92
Number of conditions where driving avoided**
0	58	33	43	32
1	64	36	29	22
2	29	16	17	13
≥3	27	15	44	33

Table 1 Legend:
IQR: Interquartile Range; MVC: Motor Vehicle Crash.
Numbers may not add to 100% or total because of rounding or missing data (not displayed if <5% of total).
*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 under Chi-square (or Fisher exact if <5 observations in a cell).

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