THE INFLUENCE OF MORBID OBESITY ON DRIVING SKILLS. PRELIMINARY RESULTS

SHORT COMMUNICATION Dotacja Mlodzi Naukowcy 510-22-00 Source of support: Pol J Aviat Med Psychol 2015; 21(1): 27-29 DOI: 10.13174/pjamp.21.01.2015.04 References: 14 • Full-text PDF: h p://www.pjamp.com • Copyright © 2015 Polish Avia on Medicine Society, ul. Krasinskiego 54/56, 01-755 Warsaw, license WIML • Indexa on: Index Copernicus, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Educa on This is an open-access ar cle distributed under the terms of the Crea ve Commons A ribu on Non-commercial License (h p://crea vecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits use, distribu on, and reproduc on in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. The goal of the study was to assess psychomotor skills of morbidly obese drivers. The study group included 9 morbidly obese patients and the control group consisted of selected representatives of Polish drivers. The Vienna Test System was used for the purpose of this study. Diff erences in cognitive skills observed between both groups were signifi cant. Studies on larger populations are necessary. driving, morbid obesity, psychomotor skill