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An Educational Intervention to Promote Safe Driving

NCT01697189 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 54

Last updated 2012-10-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The general aim of the study is to promote safe, economic, and environmental-friendly driving among long-haul truck drivers. To do this, the investigators will conduct an on-road study on i) the relationship of driver sleepiness and stress with driving behaviour and fuel consumption and ii) effectiveness of an educational intervention in mitigating sleepiness at the wheel. The educational intervention is designed to be employed by occupational health care professionals in the future. This solution clearly facilitates the implementation of the intervention into practice if it turns out to be effective.

The investigators specified research questions are the following:

* Do truck driver sleepiness and stress at the wheel reach levels that affect driving behaviour, fuel consumption and carbon emissions?
* What are the sources of sub-optimal arousal at the wheel in truck drivers?
* Can truck driver sleepiness be mitigated by an educational intervention, and if yes, does it improve driving behaviour and decrease fuel consumption and carbon emissions as well?

Conditions

  • Driver Sleepiness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Fatigue management training

Experimental group took part in a single half-day (4 hours) fatigue management training grounded on Problem Based Learning (PBL).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Jyvaskyla

    collaborator OTHER

  • Tampere University of Technology

    collaborator OTHER

  • Taipale Telematics Ltd

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mikael Sallinen, PhD · Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-08-31
Primary Completion
2012-05-31
Completion
2012-05-31

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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