Washington State Driving Intervention Research Study

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Driving Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Hazard Perception Training; Behavioral: Attention Maintenance Training; Behavioral: Vehicle Maintenance Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06146634

IRB00025991

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effect of hazard perception and attention maintenance training and testing on driving performance. Participants will be randomized into a treatment group receiving hazard perception or attention maintenance training or a control group receiving either vehicle maintenance training or the status quo ZED training. Randomization will occur by location. Researchers will compare the treatment and control groups to see if there are differences in driving behavior and crash rates.

Full description

The experiment's purpose is to assess the performance of the investigator's novel Driving Hazard Perception and Attention Maintenance training intervention on improving related driving skills, performance in driving exams, and long-term benefits as assessed by crash statistics and naturalistic driving behavior. A two-group pre-post experimental design will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the new Driving Hazard Perception Training. Each training (hazard perception and attention maintenance) will be assessed in relation to the status quo (ZED training) and in relation to a placebo that has no training related to hazard perception or attention maintenance (vehicle maintenance training). Participants beginning a driver education program will be recruited. Each participating location will be randomized to one of the four research arms. Baseline hazard perception assessment will be performed first, and then participants will receive one of the four trainings. Lastly, all participants will take a hazard perception exam to assess the participants' performance. All participants will also use a smartphone application to collect driving data during the learner driver period and 12 months of independent driving. Driving behaviors and state-level crash data will be used to assess the impact of the interventions.

Enrollment: 8,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Enrollment in a driver training course through the 911 driving school in Washington State.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants must meet the above criteria.
• Additionally, participants will be excluded if either the participant or the participant's parent opts-out.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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8,000 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Hazard Perception Training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Hazard Perception Training

Vehicle Maintenance Training

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Vehicle Maintenance Training

Attention Maintenance Training

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Attention Maintenance Training

ZED Training

No Intervention group