Mobile Telephone Use and Reaction Time in Drivers With Glaucoma

Abstract

This cross-sectional study compares reaction times to peripheral stimuli while driving and using mobile telephones among patients with glaucoma vs healthy controls.

Physical Activity Is Associated with Improved Visuomotor Processing in Older Adults with Moderate and Advanced Glaucomatous Visual Field Defect: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…Thus, the purpose of the present study is to examine how daily PA, age, and severity of visual impairment affects simple and complex visuomotor processing in patients with glaucoma. In accordance with previous findings [11,14,15], patients with glaucoma are hypothesized to achieve poorer scores in visuomotor processing tasks relative to those with no eye disease. Furthermore, in line with earlier studies [29][30][31][32], it is expected that severe visual field defects and lower PA levels will be associated with larger deficits in the executive functioning (as indicated by visuomotor task performance) of patients with glaucoma.…”

“…Glaucomatous visual field loss may significantly affect functional daily living activities, in particular activities with heavy demands on visuomotor processing. Previous studies have found that glaucoma negatively affects gait and mobility [8][9][10], eye-hand coordination [11,12], and driving ability [13][14][15]. An increased risk of motor vehicle collisions has also been observed in glaucoma patients [16][17][18].…”

Eye–Hand Coordination Impairment in Glaucoma Patients

“…Typically, fear of falling is the main reason many glaucoma patients avoid activities such as traveling out of town, walking, or venturing outside their home [8,9]. Furthermore, several studies showed a negative impact of glaucoma on physical and mental health including mobility [9,10], driving ability [11,12,13,14], reading [15], cognitive function [16,17,18], as well as processing speed and other abilities associated with complex yet instrumental activities of daily living [19,20,21].…”

Performance na condução de automóvel por pacientes portadores de glaucoma primário de ângulo aberto: atenção dividida e discriminação de objetos

“…Por outro lado, dirigir de forma distraída limita o desempenho na direção devido à capacidade restrita do ser humano em dividir a atenção (46,61,67,68) (113,147) , razão que estimulou a realização deste estudo.…”

“…Sendo uma tarefa de alta demanda visual, a capacidade de dirigir pode ser significativamente comprometida em indivíduos com glaucoma (66)(67)(68) . Quando confrontados com o desafio adicional imposto pela atenção dividida devido ao uso do aparelho celular (147) , é possível que esses indivíduos possam ter uma redução ainda maior na capacidade de dirigir com segurança do que indivíduos saudáveis, particularmente em manter a atenção seletiva na mudança rápida de atenção, capacidade de rapidamente detectar estímulos periféricos e processar informações (84,92) , como identificado na fase II do estudo.…”