NCT00967421

Development of a Valid Test Battery for Assessing Driving Ability When Influenced by Drugs.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: St. Olavs Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 25 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the validation study is to develop a valid test battery for assessing driving ability in a driving simulator when influenced by drugs. Ethanol has known, well-documented and well-characterized effects on driving behaviour and accident risk, and will be used to assess the simulator test scenarios' sensitivity to drug effects. Once the test scenarios have been refined and their ability to predict driving accident risk have been validated, we plan to use the simulator to assess driving ability under the influence of different drugs suspected to produce driving impairment.

Conditions

• Automobile Driving

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	ethanol	BAC level 0.5 g/dL (drink + placebo pill). Drink with 2,4 grams per kilo body weight, administered orally during 60 min, administration ending 30 min prior to start of testing. Placebo pill.
DRUG	Ethanol	BAC level 1.0 g/dL (drink + placebo pill). Drink with 3,6 grams per kilo body weight, administered orally during 60 min, administration ending 30 min prior to start of testing. Placebo pill.
OTHER	Placebo drink	Placebo drink containing no alcohol + placebo pill

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2009-11-01
• Completion: 2010-11-01
• First posted: 2009-08-27
• Last updated: 2017-10-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway