N/A
N=34
Promoting Intrafamily Accountability for Reducing Cellphone Use While Driving in Adults and Their Teen Children
Teen Drivers · Motor Vehicle Accidents
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02923271 ↗Enrolled (actual)
34
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Aug 2019
Primary outcome: Primary: Change in Number of Cellphone Unlocks Per Hour of Drive Time — 0.81; 3.61 Cell phone unlocks per hour
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- CellControl (Device)
- Age
- Pediatric · 16+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Primary completion
- Sep 2017
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Change in Number of Cellphone Unlocks Per Hour of Drive Time |
0.81; 3.61 | — |
| SECONDARY Change in the Number of Minutes of Phone Use Per Hour of Driving |
-4.23; -6.32 | — |
Summary
Research participants and their parents will be recruited to take part in a randomized control trial. Participants' and their parents' cellphone use will be observed during an initial baseline period. Participants and their parents will then be randomly assigned to one of two conditions: opt-out blocking with parental notification, opt-out blocking with bidirectional notification.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Both parent and teen will be enrolled together as a pair
- Teen:
- Is a high school student (age 16 or 17 at start of the study)
- Holds a valid driver's license
- Lives in parent/guardian's home
- Primarily drives one car
- Drives an average of 4 or more trips per week
- Has their own iPhone 4S or newer or Android 4.3 or newer smartphone with data plan
- Admits to texting while driving at least once in the last month
- Parent:
- Is the parent of a teen driver
- Drives an average of 4 or more trips per week
- Primarily drives one car
- Has their own iPhone 4S or newer or Android 4.3 or newer smartphone with data plan
- Admits to texting while driving at least once in the last month
Exclusion Criteria
- Parent and/or teen already uses a smartphone app or hardware device to limit cellphone use while driving
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02923271). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.