Swivel Convertible Child Safety Seat to Improve Usage

Minnesota HealthSolutions

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Motor Vehicle Injury

Treatments: Other: Modular child restraint

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT06866171

MinnesotaHealthSolutions_Swiv

Details and patient eligibility

About

Child car safety seats (or "car seats") are an important tool to keep children safe in motor vehicle crashes, but are often misused by parents and caregivers. The installation of car seats can be time consuming and confusing. A new type of swivel car seat is being developed to potentially alleviate some of the typical frustrations that might lead to car seat misuse, specifically the visibility and usage of the top tether feature. This study aims to evaluate the new car seat product and determine whether the new design results in fewer installation errors compared to a traditional car seat.

Primary objective: To compare the number of top tether installation errors produced with a production-ready prototype swivel child safety seat vs. a traditional (control) seat.

Secondary objective: To assess self-reported preference and opinions on the swivel child safety seat design.

Full description

Background: A preliminary Phase I study has already been conducted, in which volunteer focus groups provided qualitative feedback on a new prototype design. For this Phase II study, the revised prototype will be quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated by a larger sample of volunteers. Volunteer adult participants will be asked to complete two car seat installations: one with the new swivel prototype, and one with a traditional control car seat. Basic instruction manuals will be provided. The types and frequency of installation errors for each car seat will be quantified, and qualitative feedback on the product designs will be collected via survey.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Between the ages of 18 and 65
• 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.

Exclusion criteria

• Not meeting any of the above

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Study population

Description:

Participants must be a caregiver to a child age 4 or under, have experience installing a child safety seat within the past 2 years, and be physically healthy enough to install two child seats for the study.

Treatment:

Other: Modular child restraint