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- Clinical Trial NCT05554614
Behind the Wheel (BTW) Smartphone Application (BTW)
April 14, 2024 updated by: Motao Zhu
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.
Study Overview
Status
Recruiting
Conditions
Detailed Description
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.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Estimated)
180
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Contact
- Name: Motao Zhu, MD, MS, PhD
- Phone Number: (614)-355-6687
- Email: motao.zhu@nationwidechildrens.org
Study Locations
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Ohio
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Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43205
- Recruiting
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
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Contact:
- Motao Zhu, MD, MS, PhD
- Phone Number: 614-355-6687
- Email: motao.zhu@nationwidechildrens.org
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Principal Investigator:
- Motao Zhu, MD, MS, PhD
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
15 years to 17 years (Child)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Description
Inclusion criteria:
- Teen participants must be between the ages of 15.5-17 years old at the time of enrollment
- Participants must have one parent and/or legal guardian who agrees to participate in the study.
- Participants' parents must possess car insurance with at least state-minimum coverage.
- Participants must be willing to fulfill the minimum requirements of the Ohio GDL system.
- Driver must complete a driver education class at a licensed driver training school with 24 hours of classroom or online instruction and 8 hours of driving time; driver must complete 50 hours of driving with at least 10 hours of night driving; driver must hold the permit for at least 6 months.
- Participants must have a functioning smartphone and active smartphone account compatible for the BTW app.
- To prevent any interference from another driving-related study, participants must agree not to enroll in other driving-related research/driving performance app during the study period.
- Participants must be willing to be randomized and comply with study requirements.
- Participants must speak and read English.
- Participants must be a US citizen or have permanent resident status.
Exclusion criteria:
- Drivers younger than 15.5 will be excluded because Ohio does not issue a temporary instruction driving permit identification card (i.e., learner's driving permit) starting the GDL process until age 15.5.
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Other
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: BTW app with reward-based feedback
Teens will install the BTW app with reward-based feedback.
This tracks driving performance while providing individualized driving feedback using gamification concepts.
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Teen drivers will be notified of their weekly driving performance via a driving safety score with information on the types of high-risk driving behaviors committed as well as progress on maintaining and/or improving weekly safe driving behaviors.
Educational materials on different driving situations and scenarios associated with the high-risk driving behaviors (e.g.
90-second videos) will be provided for the driver to review at any point and time.
Information on these driving behaviors and the education material will be provided via push notifications from the BTW app.
Weekly leader boards will show the driver's driving safety score in comparison to other drivers of the same age.
Consistently high driver safety scores in certain driving skill areas (e.g., cornering) and a total overall score above 70% of other users on that skill or total score will unlock gamification-based rewards (e.g., driving safety badges, driving safety score leader board, group challenges with winners).
Teen drivers will be provided bi-weekly push-notifications from the BTW app notifying them of situational supervised driving practice activities that are to be completed during the assigned week.
There are 12 situational supervised driving activities and six skill-building driving activities (Table 1).
Skill-building sessions are assigned for off weeks during the first half of the six months (weeks 2-12), allowing for skills to be further developed when the situations are encountered for a second time (weeks 15-23).
Parents will be prompted to directly log situational supervised and skill-building driving activities in the app after the session within the BTW app to obtain the module completion date and duration time.
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Experimental: BTW app with situational supervised driving practice
Teens will install the BTW app the same as the app with reward-based feedback in conjunction with a situational supervised driving practice intervention for teen-parent dyads.
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Teen drivers will be provided bi-weekly push-notifications from the BTW app notifying them of situational supervised driving practice activities that are to be completed during the assigned week.
There are 12 situational supervised driving activities and six skill-building driving activities (Table 1).
Skill-building sessions are assigned for off weeks during the first half of the six months (weeks 2-12), allowing for skills to be further developed when the situations are encountered for a second time (weeks 15-23).
Parents will be prompted to directly log situational supervised and skill-building driving activities in the app after the session within the BTW app to obtain the module completion date and duration time.
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Sham Comparator: Sham BTW app
Teens will install the sham BTW app with driving performance tracking only.
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Teens will be provided links to passive education materials and information on car maintenance every week.
They will not be given feedback on their driving performances.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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High-risk driving events
Time Frame: Baseline to 6 months post randomization
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Number of high-risk driving events (harsh breaking, accelerating, and cornering events) per 1,000 miles driven.
Higher numbers signify more high-risk driving events.
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Baseline to 6 months post randomization
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Speeding and near-crash events
Time Frame: Baseline to 6 months post randomization
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Instances of speeding and number of near crashes and crashes per 1,000 miles driven.
Higher numbers signify more near-crash events.
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Baseline to 6 months post randomization
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Self-reported high risk driving behaviors
Time Frame: 18-month study period
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Self-reported frequency of high risk driving behaviors including speeding, distracted driving and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
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18-month study period
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Self-reported driving safety attitudes
Time Frame: 18-month study period
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The distribution of attitudes towards traffic safety behaviors, including speeding, distracted driving, and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, measured through self-report on 4-point Likert scales.
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18-month study period
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Self-reported traffic violations
Time Frame: 18-month study period
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The number of traffic violations, including speeding, intoxicated driving, and distracted driving, measured through self-report on a questionnaire.
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18-month study period
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Police-reported traffic violations
Time Frame: 18-month study period
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Number of police-reported crashes and traffic violations.
Higher numbers signify more crashes and violations.
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18-month study period
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Motao Zhu, MD, MS, PhD, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
February 19, 2023
Primary Completion (Estimated)
October 1, 2025
Study Completion (Estimated)
October 1, 2025
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
July 13, 2022
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
September 22, 2022
First Posted (Actual)
September 26, 2022
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
April 16, 2024
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
April 14, 2024
Last Verified
April 1, 2024
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- STUDY00002565
- FP00001219 (Other Grant/Funding Number: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
NO
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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