Behavioral Skills Training Methods to Reduce Car Seat Misuse (BSTCPS)

Pro Consumer Safety - Public Health Behavior Solutions

Status: Completed

Conditions: Motor Vehicle Injury

Treatments: Other: Behavioral Skills Training In-person

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05490992

BSTCPS2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of child passenger educational methods to measure their ability to effectively reduce car seat misuse. The study will assess the traditional child passenger educational method delivered by a child passenger safety technician by comparing it to an in-person and virtual telehealth Behavioral Skills Training approach to reduce car seat misuse.

Full description

This study of 2,449 expectant couples involved two experiments. Experiment-1: included 1,224 participants, comparing 600 participants receiving no intervention and 600 participants receiving education with behavioral skills training (BST) in-person.

Experiment-2: included 1,224 participants, comparing 600 participants receiving BST-in-person to BST with telehealth.

Enrollment: 2,448 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women at least 7-month gestation and their partner, living within Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, San Bernardino or Riverside counties; consented to the study and follow-up evaluation; and at the time of session had their child restraint system(s) and vehicle(s) available.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,448 participants in 4 patient groups

Car seat check-up traditional car seat educational method

No Intervention group

Description:

Experiment-1a: This included 600 expectant parents who were educated by a certified child passenger safety technician with a traditional car seat educational approach. All participants were assessed at baseline, no-intervention traditional education, and follow-up, between June 1, 2015 and May 30, 2016

Behavioral Skills Training In-person Group A

Experimental group

Description:

Experiment-1b: This included another 600 expectant parents who were educated by a certified child passenger safety technician an in-person Behavioral Skills Training (BST) approach. All participants were assessed at baseline, BST, and follow-up, between June 1, 2016 and May 30, 2017.

Treatment:

Other: Behavioral Skills Training In-person

Behavioral Skills Training In-person Group B

Experimental group

Description:

Experiment-2a: This included another 600 expectant parents who were educated by a certified child passenger safety technician an in-person Behavioral Skills Training (BST) approach. All participants were assessed at baseline, BST, and follow-up, between June 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.

Treatment:

Other: Behavioral Skills Training In-person

Behavioral Skills Training Telehealth

Experimental group

Description:

Experiment-2b: This included another 600 expectant parents who were educated by a certified child passenger safety technician a virtual telehealth version of Behavioral Skills Training (BST). All participants were assessed at baseline, BST-Telehealth, and follow-up, between April 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021.

Treatment:

Other: Behavioral Skills Training In-person