Motor Vehicle Accidents Clinical Trial
Official title:
Promoting Intrafamily Accountability for Reducing Cellphone Use While Driving in Adults and Their Teen Children
Research participants and their parents will be recruited to take part in a randomized control trial. Participants' and their parents' cellphone use will be observed during an initial baseline period. Participants and their parents will then be randomly assigned to one of two conditions: opt-out blocking with parental notification, opt-out blocking with bidirectional notification.
In 2012, 3,328 people were killed and an additional 421,000 were injured in crashes involving
a distracted driver. Adults aged greater than 40 years old accounted for 44% of these
fatalities. Teen driving behavior is heavily influenced by parental driving behaviors with a
recent study showing the proportion of teens that text while driving is 14% higher if they
have observed their parents doing the same. The proportion of adults who text while driving
has recently surpassed teen rates with a 2013 national poll finding 49% of adult car
commuters admit to texting while driving, most stating that they did it out of habit. Based
on previous findings, it is unlikely that teens will reduce their texting while driving
unless their parents do the same.
The objective of this study is to compare measures of acceptance and feasibility across
teen-parent dyads randomized to bidirectional teen-parent (teen monitors parent and parent
monitors teen) vs. teen only (parent monitors teen) cellphone use while driving.
Research participants will be recruited to take part in a randomized control trial.
Participants' cellphone use will be observed during an initial baseline period. Participants
will be randomly assigned to one of two conditions (bidirectional teen-parent monitoring or
parental monitoring of the teen only). An exit survey and interview will be administered to
both the parent and teen separately at the end of the study.
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| Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Completed |
NCT02416713 -
Way to Safety Cellphone Blocking
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N/A |