An Educational Intervention to Promote Safe Driving

NCT ID: NCT01697189

Last Updated: 2012-10-02

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

54 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-08-31

Study Completion Date

2012-05-31

Brief Summary

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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?

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Driver Sleepiness

Keywords

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professional drivers sleepiness stress safe driving training

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Fatigue management training

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

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Fatigue management training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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

No fatigue management training

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

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Fatigue management training

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

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 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

Exclusion Criteria

* not fluent in Finnish (the intervention is in Finnish)
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Jyvaskyla

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Tampere University of Technology

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Taipale Telematics Ltd

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Mikael Sallinen, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Locations

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Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Helsinki, , Finland

Site Status

Countries

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Finland

Other Identifiers

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EISD-109378-FWEF

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

EISD-109378-FWF

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id