Clinical trial NCT01498575: An Evaluation of a Web-based Intervention Program for Parents and Teens to Promote Safe Driving
Official title: An Evaluation of a Web-based Intervention Program for Parents and Teens to Promote Safe Driving
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Novice Teen Driver Training
Keywords: Teen driving
Behind the wheel practice driving
Parent supervision
Lead sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: State Farm Insurance Co.
name: Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital
name: GFK Knowledge Networks
First posted: 2011-12-23
Enrollment: 1024
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The long-term goal of this research is to increase safe driving among novice teen drivers by increasing the quantity, quality and diversity of driving practice while accompanied by an adult. In order to achieve the long term goal of the study, the investigators have developed a web-based intervention program known as Teen Driving Plan (TDP) intended to support high quality driving practice.

Detailed description: Motor vehicle crashes remain the number one cause of death among teens in the United States. Teen drivers (ages 16 to 19) are four times more likely to be involved in fatal crashes than adult drivers (ages 25 to 69). Inexperience is a fundamental factor in the high crash rate for novice teens. Safe and skilled driving is a complex task that involves behaviors (e.g., skills and actions) that vary and become increasingly challenging with increasing speed, unsafe road conditions and other hazards of the driving environment. Because teens are at their lowest lifetime risk of crashing when accompanied by an adult, adult-supervised practice provides a safe way for teens to gain needed experience under a variety of driving conditions. Unfortunately, few teens receive sufficient quantity, quality and diversity of adult-supervised practice prior to licensure.

The objective of the proposed research is to compare how the driving training process and the results of that training process differ between a group of young learning permit holders in families that have access to TDP (the intervention group) from the training process and the results of that process in an otherwise similar group of teens in families with no TDP access (the control group). The investigators hypothesize that teens given access to TDP will demonstrate greater competence and safety in a standardized on-road driving assessment than teens with no TDP access.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Teen 16 or 17 years of age who holds a Pennsylvania (PA) learner permit, or plans to obtain a learner permit in \< 1 month.
* Parent(s) or legal guardian(s) of a teen with his or her learner permit.
* Internet connection at home and other technical requirements to launch web program if needed.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-English speaking.
* Teen has practiced more than 5 hours behind the wheel or has taken more than 5 practice drives with a supervising adult prior to enrollment.
* Teen has received formal behind-the-wheel driver education instruction prior to enrollment with a certified driving instructor at a professional driver education company or in his/her school.
* Pregnant female teen subjects.
* Teen requires handicapped placard or license plate in order to drive.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Late Driving Performance in On-road Assessment (ODA) Test
timeFrame: 24 weeks after enrollment
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Philadelphia
country: United States
facility: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: Chidlren's Hospital of Philadelphia
name: Dennis R Durbin, MD, MSCE
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Mirman JH, Curry AE, Winston FK, Wang W, Elliott MR, Schultheis MT, Fisher Thiel MC, Durbin DR. Effect of the teen driving plan on the driving performance of teenagers before licensure: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2014 Aug;168(8):764-71. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.252.
citation: Winston FK, Mirman JH, Curry AE, Pfeiffer MR, Elliott MR, Durbin DR. Engagement with the TeenDrivingPlan and diversity of teens' supervised practice driving: lessons for internet-based learner driver interventions. Inj Prev. 2015 Feb;21(1):4-9. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2014-041212. Epub 2014 Jun 10.