Automobile Accident Clinical Trial
Official title:
Comparative Effectiveness of Financial Incentives and Smartphone-based Nudges to Reduce Cellphone Use While Driving Among Auto Insurance Policy Holders With Usage Based Insurance Policies
Verified date | September 2020 |
Source | University of Pennsylvania |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
The investigators are proposing an experiment to help a national auto insurance company test behavioral economic strategies to reduce the amount of time policy holders actively use their cell phone while driving. Interventions include financial incentives, social comparison, and nudges, and survey data will also be collected. Data collected from this internal trial will be shared with the Penn research team and analyzed
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 2108 |
Est. completion date | August 30, 2020 |
Est. primary completion date | October 30, 2019 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 16 Years and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Progressive Snapshot Users with policy activated within recruitment period - Progressive Snapshot policy holder in one of the following states and regions: MI, PA, TX, FL, TN, OR, GA, NE, OK, OH, MT, MO, NV, CT, WI, MD, KY, MN, NH, NJ, AZ, ME, LA, SC, CO, MS, IN, IA, AL, ND, UT, RI, WV, WY, IL, AR, DE, KS, SD, NM, VT, ID, and the District of Columbia - Has an email address Exclusion Criteria: - Progressive Snapshot Mobile App not updated to enable push notifications - Customer's residential address is in a state in which phone use while driving is factored into insurance rating - Customer's Snapshot Mobile App does not collect trip data with all sensors active - Customer in Snapshot program for < 30 days or more > 70 days |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of Pennsylvania | U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration |
United States,
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Seconds of active phone use per hour of driving | Percentage of driving time engaging in active handheld phone use (also measured as seconds of distracted driving/hour of driving) | 150 days | |
Secondary | Seconds of passive phone use per hour of driving | Seconds of passive handheld, non-call use per hour of driving | 150 days | |
Secondary | Hard breaking events per 100 miles | notifications turned off, drop out of study, app uninstall | 150 days | |
Secondary | Hard acceleration events per 100 miles | Hard acceleration events per 100 miles | 150 days |
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