Virtual Reality by Mobile Phone: Improving Child Pedestrian Safety

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Pedestrian Safety

Treatments: Behavioral: pedestrian safety training in pedestrian virtual environment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02948400

R01HD088415-01

R01HD088415 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will conduct a non-inferiority clinical trial to evaluate whether children trained in pedestrian safety amidst a Google Cardboard virtual environment achieve equivalent levels of pedestrian safety to children trained in a full semi-immersive virtual pedestrian environment

Enrollment: 500 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 8 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children ages 7-8 and their families
• one sibling per family, randomly chosen if multiple siblings are eligible
• children and parent speak English

Exclusion criteria

• disabilities that prohibit participants from valid understanding of or participation in the experimental protocol
• families that plan to move more than 50 miles away over the next year
• families unable to commit to frequent visits required in the study protocol

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

Google Cardboard virtual environment

Experimental group

Description:

pedestrian safety training using the Google Cardboard device and delivery of a pedestrian virtual environment by mobile smartphone. Note that children in this arm will be trained using an immersive virtual environment delivered by smartphone, which is different from the other arm that is trained using a semi-immersive virtual environment delivered in a kiosk. The intervention is pedestrian safety training for both arms.

Treatment:

Behavioral: pedestrian safety training in pedestrian virtual environment

semi-immersive virtual environment

Active Comparator group

Description:

pedestrian safety training using a semi-immersive virtual pedestrian environment kiosk. Note that children in this arm will be trained using a semi-immersive virtual environment delivered in a kiosk, which is different from the other arm that is trained using an immersive virtual environment delivered by smartphone. The intervention is pedestrian safety training for both arms.

Treatment:

Behavioral: pedestrian safety training in pedestrian virtual environment