Clinical trial NCT03508843: Improving Child Restraint Installation
Official title: Improving Child Restraint Installation in Rural America Through Interactive Virtual Presence
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Car Seat Installation
Lead sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-04-26
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The investigators will conduct a pre-post trial with 150 parents in rural South Central Montana. The study will recruit families to cooperating community locations (e.g., churches, public libraries) to participate in research evaluating the efficacy of parents installing restraints with guidance from a remotely-located technician using interactive virtual presence. Following informed consent procedures, parents will complete a brief survey on behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions about child safety and restraints while an on-site technician evaluates baseline safety of the restraint. Parents will then engage remotely using their personal smartphone with an off-site certified car seat technician, obtaining advice to install the child restraint properly via the HelpLightning interactive virtual presence app. Following the remote interaction, the on-site technician will again inspect the restraint using the validated checklist (and correct any errors prior to the participant leaving). The overall goal is to demonstrate installation of child restraints can be effectively accomplished to rural populations using interactive virtual presence. The study has 2 specific aims:

Specific Aim 1. Demonstrate technological and behavioral efficacy of providing instructions on child restraint installation remotely to rural populations. Demonstrate \>95% of interactions proceed without technical problems, without reports of communication difficulty on either end of the exchange (the parent or the technician), and without interruption.

Specific Aim 2. Identify accuracy of child restraint installation by parents using instructions provided by a remotely-located certified technician via interactive virtual presence. Demonstrate installation in this manner achieves ≥90% accuracy across all aspects of child restraint installation. Demonstrate installation in this manner significantly reduces restraint installation errors.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* communicate in English
* drive a vehicle with one or more car seats present
* willing to install a car seat into the vehicle

Exclusion Criteria:

* none

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of Participants Who Accurately Select a Safe Child Restraint
timeFrame: immediately (< 5 minutes) after the car seat is installed
measure: Number of Participants Who Install the Child Restraint Accurately Into the Vehicle
timeFrame: immediately (< 5 minutes) after the car seat is installed
measure: Number of Participants Who Properly Position the Child Restraint in the Vehicle
timeFrame: immediately (< 5 minutes) after the car seat is installed
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Birmingham
country: United States
facility: UAB Youth Safety Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham
state: Alabama
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham
name: David C Schwebel, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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