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The impact of cannabis on drivingMichel Bedard
Public Health Program, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON
Can J Public Health 98:6-11. 2007..However, studies designed to examine this issue have provided equivocal findings. We set up this study to further determine the effect of cannabis on driving...
Predicting driving performance in older adults: we are not there yet!Michel Bedard
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Traffic Inj Prev 9:336-41. 2008..We set up this study to determine the predictive value of approaches for which a statistical association with driving performance has been documented...- The combination of two training approaches to improve older adults' driving safetyMichel Bedard
Public Health Program, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Traffic Inj Prev 9:70-6. 2008..We examined if the combination of an in-class education program with on-road education would lead to improvements in older drivers' knowledge of safe driving practices and on-road driving evaluations... - Roadwise Review has limited congruence with actual driving performance of aging driversMichel Bedard
Centre for Research on Safe Driving, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada
Accid Anal Prev 43:2209-14. 2011..Such results emphasize the importance of developing a rigorous data synthesis process before attempting knowledge translation of material aimed at older drivers... - Visual attention and older drivers: the contribution of inhibition of return to safe drivingMichel Bedard
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Exp Aging Res 32:119-35. 2006..To the authors' knowledge these findings represent the first documentation of a relationship between IOR and driving. The results are informative regarding the importance of reflexive visual attention mechanisms towards safe driving... - Using the Attention Network Test to predict driving test scoresBruce Weaver
Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Accid Anal Prev 41:76-83. 2009..These findings suggest that further investigation of the usefulness of the ANT as a tool for driving researchers and clinicians is merited... - Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: benefits in reducing depression following a traumatic brain injuryMichel Bedard
St Joseph s Care Group, Thunder Bay, Ontario Centre for Research on Safe Driving at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Northern Ontatio School of Medicine, Lakehead University
Adv Mind Body Med 26:14-20. 2012..Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) may offer new rehabilitation opportunities for individuals with TBI... - Health impact on caregivers of providing informal care to a cognitively impaired older adult: rural versus urban settingsMichel Bedard
Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont
Can J Rural Med 9:15-23. 2004..We investigated potential differences between rural and urban caregivers in the health impact on these caregivers of caring for cognitively impaired individuals... - Driving performance and susceptibility to simulator sickness: are they related?Nadia W Mullen
Centre for Research on Safe Driving, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Am J Occup Ther 64:288-95. 2010..e., those with the poorest on-road driving performance) and that cognitive differences are not associated with dropping out because of simulator sickness... - The additive effects of alcohol and benzodiazepines on drivingHillary G Maxwell
St Joseph s Care Group, Research Department, Thunder Bay, ON
Can J Public Health 101:353-7. 2010..To examine the relationship between the combination of alcohol and benzodiazepines and the risk of committing an unsafe driver action... - The needs of rural and urban young, middle-aged and older adults with a serious mental illnessMichel Bedard
Public Health Program, Lakehead University, St Joseph s Care Group, Division of Human Sciences, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Can J Rural Med 12:167-75. 2007..Young and older adults with a severe mental illness (SMI) have different needs; this study was designed to identify important differences... - Sleep disturbances in spousal caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's diseaseJoy Creese
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Int Psychogeriatr 20:149-61. 2008..Although sleep problems are commonly reported among dementia caregivers, the nature and frequency of caregiver sleep disruptions, and their relationship to health status, has received little empirical attention to date... - Aggressive driving behaviour in young drivers (aged 16 through 25) involved in fatal crashesAnik Lambert-Bélanger
Public Health Program, Department of Health Sciences, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada
J Safety Res 43:333-8. 2012..We wished to determine the extent to which number of passengers, driver age, and sex were associated with aggressive driving actions (ADAs) in young drivers involved in a fatal crash... - Evaluation of a re-training program for older driversMichel Bedard
Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1
Can J Public Health 95:295-8. 2004..Specifically, we examined if older drivers who received the training would have better scores on a driving evaluation than drivers who did not receive the training... - Understanding burden differences between men and women caregivers: the contribution of care-recipient problem behaviorsMichel Bedard
Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Int Psychogeriatr 17:99-118. 2005..This study was carried out to determine why women caring for men report more burden than other caregivers, and to further examine the role of care-recipient problem behaviors as determinants of burden... - The influence of passengers on older drivers involved in fatal crashesMichel Bedard
Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Exp Aging Res 30:205-15. 2004..30, 0.46]) but a higher risk of other actions (e.g., ignoring signs/warnings/right of way, OR = 1.18 [95% CI = 1.15, 1.22]). These findings are discussed in the context of strategies to maximize safe driving in older adults...