Clinical trial NCT04720300: Evaluating a Travel App's Influence on College Student Commuting to Campus
Official title: Using a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate a Travel App's Influence on College Student Commuting to Campus
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Behavior
Keywords: Students
Transportation
Academic achievement
Behavior
Lead sponsor: Florida Atlantic University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-01-22
Enrollment: 450
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: The Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (cRCT) portion of the study will focus on evaluating the use of information, marketing, and incentives to shape student travel behavior to campus through the three channels identified in Ajzen's (1991) framework.

Detailed description: The investigators will evaluate whether a package of information, marketing, and incentives shifts student travel behavior to campus over one year, and in turn if these shifts in travel behavior result in improved academic performance.

Specific objectives of the cRCT include evaluating whether the intervention results in relatively:

1. Greater utilization of travel modes alternative to single-occupant vehicle travel (transit, biking, walking, bike-sharing, electric scooters, and carpooling)
2. Lower rates of car ownership
3. Superior college performance--higher grade point averages (GPAs)
4. More credit hours completed
5. Higher retention rates

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Students who live off-campus and attend any of the following three colleges or universities: Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Broward College (BC), or Palm Beach State College (PBSC).
* Students must plan to be at the same institution for the next academic year.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Students live on campus
* Students will leave their current institution within the next academic year

Primary outcomes:
measure: The rate of students using alternative modes increases.
timeFrame: one academic year
measure: Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increased grade point averages.
timeFrame: one academic year
measure: Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in credit hours earned.
timeFrame: one academic year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The rate of students who own vehicles should decrease.
timeFrame: one academic year
measure: Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in retention.
timeFrame: one academic year
measure: Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in degree completion.
timeFrame: one academic year
Other outcomes:
measure: Self-Reported BMI
timeFrame: one academic year
measure: Self-reported general health
timeFrame: one academic year
Locations:
city: Boca Raton
country: United States
facility: Florida Atlantic University
state: Florida
Study officials:
affiliation: Florida Atlantic University
name: John L Renne, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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