Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 89, Issue 4 , Pages 630-640 , April 2008

Conceptualizing and Measuring Confidence in Older Drivers: Development of the Day and Night Driving Comfort Scales

Presented to the Gerontological Society of America, November 2006, Dallas, TX.

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 Supported by the Canadian Driving Research Initiative for Vehicular Safety in the Elderly (CanDRIVE), Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the authors or upon any organization with which the authors are associated.

 Reprints are not available from the authors.

PII: S0003-9993(07)01844-8

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.09.037

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 89, Issue 4 , Pages 630-640 , April 2008

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