High-risk Driving Events Clinical Trial
Official title:
Behind the Wheel (BTW) Smartphone Application: Utilizing Technology to Quantify Driving Behaviors
The purpose of this study is to find out if a phone app can help the learning-to-drive process among teenagers and novice drivers.
This project will assess the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an app (BTW) to quantify driving behaviors and promote safe driving in adolescents who are beginning their learner period of licensure. 90 teens and their corresponding parents/guardians will be randomized into one of three study groups. Researchers aim to test the feasibility of the BTW app on acceptance and retention, evaluate the preliminary efficacy of the BTW app with a teen-parent dyad intervention on driving performance after using the BTW app for six months, and investigate the long-term effects of the BTW app intervention on driving performance and safety attitudes among teens. ;