Teen Driving Translation Study (NIH)

Ginger Yang

Status and phase: Enrolling; Phase 3

Conditions: Recidivism; Drive; Feedback, Psychological; Communication

Treatments: Behavioral: Peer-Delivered Parent Communication Training; Combination Product: In-vehicle Device; Behavioral: Expert-Delivered Parent Communication Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05696353

STUDY00001081

Details and patient eligibility

About

To translate our evidence-based, parent-engagement safe teen driving intervention to a high-risk, rural and urban teen drivers with a traffic violation, and to test the implementation, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of the proposed intervention.

Full description

For this study, 290 teen and parent/guardian dyads will be randomized into one of three study groups for 12 months with 6 months of active data collection. Teens will be aged 16-17 who committed a moving-related traffic violation and their parent/legal guardian who is most involved with their driving. Dyads will be recruited from both urban and rural counties in Ohio following the teen's moving violation conviction. The study will determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the intervention on teens' risky driving events, unsafe driving behaviors, traffic violation recidivism, and motor vehicle collisions (MVCs), as well as frequency and quality of parent-teen communications about safe driving practices. Additionally, the study will determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the peer-delivered intervention vs. expert-delivered intervention on the outcomes of the interest. Finally, the study will assess the barriers/facilitators to the adoption and implementation of the intervention in rural and urban families.

Enrollment: 580 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Teen must be 16 or 17 years old at the time of the moving-related violation
• Teen must be a first-time offender and be found guilty of committing the violation
• Teen must possess a valid Ohio provisional driver's license and proof of car insurance
• Teen must have access to a vehicle with an On-board Diagnostics II system port (i.e., cars made after 1996) in which they are the primary driver
• Teen must have a smart phone with Bluetooth capabilities

Exclusion criteria

• Teen is unable to drive due to injury, has a suspended driver's license, and/or car damage
• Teen has previously received a traffic citation
• Vehicle already has an in-vehicle driving feedback system installed
• Teen has non-English speaking parents
• Teen is currently enrolled in another driving-related study
• Teen is a ward of the State
• Adults unable to consent
• Pregnant women
• Prisoners

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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580 participants in 3 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The Control Group will have an in-vehicle device installed in the teen's car, but all feedback features will be disabled. Parents assigned into this group will receive no communication training on how to motivate their teen to adopt safe driving habits.

Feedback and Expert-Delivered Parent Communication Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Teens will have an in-vehicle device installed in their car and the smart phone app downloaded on their smart phone. Teens will receive real-time and cumulative driving feedback generated by the in-vehicle device and app; parents will have access to their teen's cumulative driving data at any time via study web portal. Parents will also receive communication training on how to motivate their teen to adopt safe driving habits via online modules and a video call with a teen driving safety communication expert. A second booster session will occur two months after the initial training. Both teens and parents will also receive a biweekly summary report of the teen's driving events prepared by the research team.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Expert-Delivered Parent Communication Training

Combination Product: In-vehicle Device

Feedback and Peer-Delivered Parent Communication Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Teens will have an in-vehicle device installed in their car and the smart phone app download on their smart phone. Teens will receive real-time and cumulative driving feedback generated by the in-vehicle device and app; parents will have access to their teen's cumulative driving data at any time via study web portal. Parents will also receive communication training on how to motivate their teen to adopt safe driving habits via online modules and a video call with a peer trainer who is a parent of teen with a traffic violation and who has received the Expert-delivered Intervention and met the defined peer trainer criteria. A second booster session delivered by the peer trainer will also occur two months after the initial training. Both teens and parents will also receive a biweekly summary report of the teen's driving events prepared by the research team.

Treatment:

Combination Product: In-vehicle Device

Behavioral: Peer-Delivered Parent Communication Training