Safety-Enhancing Motor Vehicle Child Safety Seat

Minnesota HealthSolutions

Status: Completed

Conditions: Motor Vehicle Injury; Safety Issues

Treatments: Other: Child restraint system with load leg feature

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT06384989

MinnesotaHealthSolutions_LL

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to assess the usability of a load leg design for caregivers who must install the child safety seat into a vehicle. The specific aims are to quantify any errors committed by the participants while installing the car seat and to assess participants' opinions on the car seat's load leg design.

Full description

A descriptive study will be conducted to determine whether human subjects are able to install the new feature of the prototype car seat correctly. Participants will be presented with the prototype car seat and a set of basic written instructions and labels to guide their installations. The percentage of participants who use the new feature and use it correctly will be reported. Any installation errors on other parts of the child seat (seat belt, lower anchors, top tether) will also be reported.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 or older
• Be a care provider to a child who is up to 4 years of age
• Have installed a child safety seat in the last 2 years
• Able to lift and install a child safety seat into a vehicle
• English-speaking (because consent forms and explanation will be given in English)

Exclusion criteria

• Not meeting any of the above

Trial design