Web-based Intervention to Prevent Risky Driving

Promoting Teen Health: A Web-based Intervention to Prevent Risky Driving

The specific aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of a web-based intervention to prevent risky driving with teen drivers licensed in the previous 90 days.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Adolescent; Attention; Accidents, Traffic; Motor Vehicles
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Risky driving prevention; Behavioral: Control group general health promotion

Detailed Description

The specific aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of a web-based intervention to prevent risky driving teen drivers licensed in the previous 90 days. The intervention will focus on promoting teen driver attention to the roadway.

The investigators will use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) experimental design for this feasibility study, randomizing to the intervention or control group. The investigators will complete a baseline assessment and follow up with participants at 1-month, 3-months and 6-months post-intervention delivery.

This study will provide information on the feasibility of the web-based intervention to prevent risky driving and estimation of effect size of the intervention on simulated driving performance, self-reported driving behaviors, crash and citation data.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 60
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104-4217
      • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104-4217
      • University of Pennsylvania

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years to 17 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Males or females age 16-17 years at time of enrollment (i.e. can turn 18 while enrolled in research and still be eligible).
2. Pennsylvania driver's license for 90 days or less at time of assent
3. Personal email address and computer and internet access
4. Willingness to travel to CHOP twice to complete simulated assessment
5. Ability to read and write English

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Self-reported of claustrophobia, migraine headaches, or motion sickness
2. Self-reported current pregnancy
3. . Participation in a Center for Injury Research and Prevention teen driving study with the past 6 months

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Risky driving prevention; Web-based behavioral intervention to promote teen driver attention to the roadway, addressing mobile technology and passengers.	Behavioral: Risky driving prevention; The web-based intervention to prevent risky driving targets knowledge, attitudes, perceived control and norms about driver inattention, with strategies to keep attention on the roadway.
Experimental: Control group; Web-based behavioral intervention for healthy lifestyles.	Behavioral: Control group general health promotion; The control group will receive a web-based intervention for general health promotion and is designed to enhance participants' knowledge and ability to reduce their risk of adverse health conditions including, obesity and heart disease.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Retention of Participants	Number of participants enrolled who complete Study Visit 1, Study Visit 2, Study Visit 3 and Study Visit 4.	Baseline (Study Visit 1) through Study Visit 4 (around 6 months).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Proportion of Participants Randomized	Proportion of participants screened, enrolled and randomized	Baseline (Study Visit 1)
Adherence	Adherence among the intervention and control group to the intervention.	Baseline (Study Visit 1) through completion of the intervention.
Simulated Driving Performance	Difference between the intervention and control group on the simulated driving assessment (measures of driving performance during the simulated experimental drives).	Baseline (Study Visit 1) through Study Visit 3
Self-report Driving Behaviors	Difference between the intervention and control group on self-report measures of driving behaviors.	Baseline (Study Visit 1) through Study Visit 4 (around 6 months).
Driving Citations and Crashes	Difference between the intervention and control group on driving citations and crashes.	Baseline (Study Visit 1) through Study Visit 4 (around 6 months).

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania
• Collaborators: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Catherine C McDonald, PhD, RN, University of Pennsylvania

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• McDonald CC, Sommers MS, Fargo JD, Seacrist T, Power T. Simulated Driving Performance, Self-Reported Driving Behaviors, and Mental Health Symptoms in Adolescent Novice Drivers. Nurs Res. 2018 May/Jun;67(3):202-211. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000270.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: April 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2016
• Study Completion (Actual): July 31, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 8, 2014
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 17, 2014
• First Posted (Estimate): December 18, 2014

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 6, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 3, 2017
• Last Verified: October 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: R00NR013548 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); 14-011336 (Other Identifier: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia IRB); 821064 (Other Identifier: University of Pennsylvania IRB)