An Educational Intervention to Promote Safe Driving

NCT01697189 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: EISD-109378-FWFEISD-109378-FWEF
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 54
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The general aim of the study is to promote safe, economic, and environmental-friendly driving among long-haul truck drivers. To do this, the investigators will conduct an on-road study on i) the relationship of driver sleepiness and stress with driving behaviour and fuel consumption and ii) effectiveness of an educational intervention in mitigating sleepiness at the wheel. The educational intervention is designed to be employed by occupational health care professionals in the future. This solution clearly facilitates the implementation of the intervention into practice if it turns out to be effective. The investigators specified research questions are the following:

• Do truck driver sleepiness and stress at the wheel reach levels that affect driving behaviour, fuel consumption and carbon emissions?
• What are the sources of sub-optimal arousal at the wheel in truck drivers?
• Can truck driver sleepiness be mitigated by an educational intervention, and if yes, does it improve driving behaviour and decrease fuel consumption and carbon emissions as well?

Conditions

Driver Sleepiness

Keywords

professional drivers; sleepiness; stress; safe driving; training

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• driver sleepiness

  Self-reported sleepiness measured by the the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale Questionnaire and behavioral sleepiness measured by the Observer Rating of Drowsiness (based on video materia).

  one year

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• driver stress

  one year

• sleep

  one year

• driving behaviour

  one year

Study Arms (2)

Fatigue management training

EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental group subjects participated in a single half-day fatigue management training session.

Behavioral: Fatigue management training

No fatigue management training

NO INTERVENTION

The control group subjects did not participate in the fatigue management training.

Interventions

Fatigue management training BEHAVIORAL

Experimental group took part in a single half-day (4 hours) fatigue management training grounded on Problem Based Learning (PBL).

Fatigue management training

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• working as a truck driver at the moment of the study
• having both day and night trips
• having at least 2 years of experience in truck driving

You may not qualify if:

• not fluent in Finnish (the intervention is in Finnish)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Finnish Institute of Occupational Health: lead
• University of Jyvaskyla: collaborator
• Tampere University of Technology: collaborator
• Taipale Telematics Ltd: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Helsinki, 00250, Finland

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Sleepiness

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Mikael Sallinen, PhD

  Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 5, 2010
• First Posted: October 2, 2012
• Study Start: August 1, 2010
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2012
• Study Completion: May 1, 2012
• Last Updated: October 2, 2012

Record last verified: 2012-09

Locations

FI (1)