An Educational Intervention to Promote Safe Driving

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Driver Sleepiness

Treatments: Behavioral: Fatigue management training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01697189

EISD-109378-FWEF (Other Grant/Funding Number)

EISD-109378-FWF

Details and patient eligibility

About

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?

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• working as a truck driver at the moment of the study
• having both day and night trips
• having at least 2 years of experience in truck driving

Exclusion criteria

• not fluent in Finnish (the intervention is in Finnish)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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54 participants in 2 patient groups

Fatigue management training

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental group subjects participated in a single half-day fatigue management training session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Fatigue management training

No fatigue management training

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group subjects did not participate in the fatigue management training.