Promoting Intrafamily Accountability for Reducing Cellphone Use While Driving in Adults and Their Teen Children

NCT02923271 | Completed Results

• 1 other identifier: 15-011835
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 34
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief 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.

Conditions

Teen Drivers; Motor Vehicle Accidents

Keywords

Driving; Teens; Texting; Cellphone; DriveID; Motor vehicle accident

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in Number of Cellphone Unlocks Per Hour of Drive Time

  Change in number of cellphone unlocks per hour of drive time between baseline and the end of the intervention period

  8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change in the Number of Minutes of Phone Use Per Hour of Driving

  8 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Teen-Parent Monitoring Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Cellcontrol DriveID device will automatically turn on when the teen or parent begins driving and will be pre-set to block all calls and text messages when the car is in motion but participants will have the ability to override the blocking. The teen-parent monitoring group involves will send email notifications to the teen when their parent unlocks their phone while driving and vice versa. Participants (parents and teens) will self-report information on their individual driving behaviors for the three weeks prior to study enrollment, including how often they report texting while driving and self-report cellphone use. At the end of the study participants will be asked to report feedback about the use the cellphone blocking technology and their perceptions for whether their safety improved using the technology.

Device: CellControl

Teen Only Monitoring Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Cellcontrol DriveID device will automatically turn on when the teen or parent begins driving and will be pre-set to block all calls and text messages when the car is in motion but participants will have the ability to override the blocking. The teen only group involves parental monitoring of the teen's cellphone use while driving only. The parent will receive an email notification when their teen unlocks their phone while driving. Both parents and teens will drive under the same restrictions, but only the parent is notified of teen cellphone use. Participants (parents and teens) will self-report information on their individual driving behaviors for the three weeks prior to study enrollment, including how often they report texting while driving and self-report cellphone use. At the end of the study participants will be asked to report feedback about the use the cellphone blocking technology and their perceptions for whether their safety improved using the technology.

Device: CellControl

Interventions

CellControl DEVICE

Technology that blocks incoming and outgoing calls and texts. CellControl Drive ID will monitor all cellphone use while driving (without blocking) for 3 weeks during baseline measurement period. During the intervention period (5 weeks) cellphone use will be monitored and blocking of incoming calls and texts will be active.

Also known as: DriveID

Teen Only Monitoring Group; Teen-Parent Monitoring Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 16 Years - 17 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• 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

You may not qualify if:

• Parent and/or teen already uses a smartphone app or hardware device to limit cellphone use while driving

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: lead
• University of Pennsylvania: collaborator

Study Sites (2)

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

Location

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

Location

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Dr. M. Kit Delgado
• Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Mucio.Delgado@uphs.upenn.edu

215-746-8256

Study Officials

• Catherine McDonald, PhD, RN

  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: No
• Restrictive Agreement: No

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 3, 2016
• First Posted: October 4, 2016
• Study Start: December 7, 2016
• Primary Completion: September 13, 2017
• Study Completion: November 16, 2017
• Last Updated: August 20, 2019
• Results First Posted: August 9, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (2)