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To this end, healthcare professionals working in primary care are in frequent contact with older drivers at risk and for whom interventions have to be undertaken. However, little is known about their role, despite the major implications with legal authorities in assessing ¦tness to drive and in reporting unsafe drivers, especially in a Quebec setting. The purpose of this study was to describe the role of primary healthcare professionals in road safety.  \n Within a descriptive qualitative design, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 27 primary healthcare professionals (registered nurses (n =16), occupational therapists (n =7), and family physicians (n =4)) . Using an inductive approach, qualitative data was analyzed with the content analysis method.  \n The road safety role of the primary healthcare professionals interviewed varied between professions, depending on their respective expertise. Furthermore, they work in close collaboration and interdiscipl inarity. Their role is divided into two main components, namely screening and assessment of older drivers’ driving abilities, as well as of the support and accompaniment offered to seniors following the loss of their driving license. Their role also differs in terms of legally declaring older drivers ¦t or not to drive. Some professionals integrate preventive interventions into their practice, aimed either to keep seniors driving as long as possible, or to prepare seniors to stop driving. Several healthcare professionals reported experiencing challenges, especially during the process of assessing their elderly patients’ ¦tness to drive.  \n This study’s results will help organizations to develop training programs allowing primary healthcare professionals to improve their practice with elderly drivers and their loved ones.  \nDrivers aged 65 or over account for 22% of all licensed drivers in Quebec, Canada, and this proportion is growing fast (1) . Older drivers have a lower personal injury collision rate than other drivers, overall. However, they have a higher rate of collisions per kilometer driven (2) . They are also more likely to suffer fatal injuries in a road collisions (3), because their physical fragility leads to greater vulnerability to injury in a collision (4–6) . According to the latest report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (7), collisions involving a vehicle were the second leading cause of hospitalizations among seniors in 2018.  \nDriving is a complex activity of daily living, requiring the simultaneous processing of visual, auditory, and tactile information that takes place in a dynamic environment. This activity imposes numerous cognitive, perceptual, visual and psychomotor demands (8) . Although these demands are all affected by normal aging (9), its effects do not, in themselves, constitute an increased risk factor for accidents (9, 10) . On the other hand, advancing age is associated with an increase in the presence of health problems which, added to the effects of normal aging, can affect seniors’ driving ability (2, 4, 9–11) . By 2030, it is  \nestimated that more than 60% of older drivers will have at least one medical condition recognized as being able to in§uence driving ability (12, 13) .  \nArticle 603 of Quebec’s Highway Safety Code stipulates that the healthcare professionals legally authorized to judge a person’s ¦tness to d","cbCaibzGAAtORGiS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibzGAAtORGiS","pdf",355133,"English","# Study background and rationale\n## Older drivers and collision risk\n## Legal framework and authority in Quebec\n# Study aim and research questions\n## Driving ability assessment\n## Support during driving cessation\n# Study design and methods\n## Participants and interview approach\n## Data analysis approach\n# Role of clinicians and reported challenges","[{\"question\":\"What was the purpose of the study?\",\"answer\":\"To describe the role of primary healthcare professionals in road safety for older drivers.\"},{\"question\":\"How were participants and data collected?\",\"answer\":\"The study used a descriptive qualitative design with semi-structured interviews of 27 primary healthcare professionals, including registered nurses, occupational therapists, and family physicians.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the two main components of the clinicians’ road safety role?\",\"answer\":\"Screening and assessment of older drivers’ driving abilities, and support and accompaniment for seniors following loss of their driving license.\"}]","Primary healthcare professionals’ road safety role for older drivers - Study purpose and methods | PDF",48]