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Teenage Driving Safety Study: An Emergency Medicine-Trauma Collaborative Study

NCT01402856 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 3750

Last updated 2016-10-14

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Summary

Teenage driving safety continues to be a major public health issue. Two factors have been found to contribute to a higher teenage driving accident rate than adults: lack of driving experience, and risky behaviors. Insufficient driving experience puts teenagers at a disadvantage in detecting and responding to hazards while driving. Factors contributing to distracted driving (a diversion in the driver's attention from the road) may include: talking or text messaging on a cell phone, applying makeup, having multiple passengers, listening to loud music, eating/drinking, smoking or reading while driving.

This is a prospective study designed to evaluate the effect of an educational program on the risks associated with distracted driving for teenage drivers. The researchers will compare cell phone usage behaviors in Pennsylvania, where no cell phone laws are in place, and New Jersey, where cell phone laws exist, and will educate the beginner driver on the potential dangers associated with driving without a seat belt, substance use, and participating in distracting driving behaviors. Knowledge of state laws will also be assessed.

Objectives

1. Educate participants on the potential dangers of distracted driving.
2. Evaluate the impact of the educational program on teenage distracted driving behaviors by obtaining and analyzing information from student surveys, state law quizzes, and anonymous observation, pre, post, and delayed post education.
3. Quantify distracted driving behavior in teenage driver's attending local area high schools by obtaining and analyzing information from student surveys, state law quizzes, and anonymous observation, pre, post, and delayed post education.
4. Qualify distracted driving behavior in teenage driver's attending local area high schools by obtaining and analyzing information from student surveys, anonymous observation, and anonymous voicemails, text messages, and/or emails pre, post, and delayed post education.

Qualify distracted driving behavior in adults through anonymous observations near local area high schools.

6\. Compare teenage driving behaviors as reported and observed between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

7\. Compare seat belt usage, driving behaviors, and substance use in the study population to the state and national averages pre and post education.

8\. Compare averages of student's knowledge of state driving laws pre and post education.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Education

An educational program targeting HS students on the risks of distracted driving that was 60-min long \& utilized: a 5-10 min DVD on a teenager's real-life experience of the devastating effects of distracted driving, other videos placing the viewer in the driver's seat, power point presentations of state and national statistics related to seat belt usage, mortality, and substance use, overview of state laws, demonstrations of the physics of an accident, \& interactive games simulating distracted driving.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lehigh Valley Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gavin C Barr, Jr, MD · Lehigh Valley Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-11-30
Primary Completion
2008-05-31
Completion
2012-05-31

Countries

  • United States

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