Improving Child Restraint Installation

NCT ID: NCT03508843

Last Updated: 2019-10-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 150 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-06-09
• Study Completion Date: 2018-10-13

Brief Summary

The investigators will conduct a pre-post trial with 150 parents in rural South Central Montana. The study will recruit families to cooperating community locations (e.g., churches, public libraries) to participate in research evaluating the efficacy of parents installing restraints with guidance from a remotely-located technician using interactive virtual presence. Following informed consent procedures, parents will complete a brief survey on behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions about child safety and restraints while an on-site technician evaluates baseline safety of the restraint. Parents will then engage remotely using their personal smartphone with an off-site certified car seat technician, obtaining advice to install the child restraint properly via the HelpLightning interactive virtual presence app. Following the remote interaction, the on-site technician will again inspect the restraint using the validated checklist (and correct any errors prior to the participant leaving). The overall goal is to demonstrate installation of child restraints can be effectively accomplished to rural populations using interactive virtual presence. The study has 2 specific aims:

Specific Aim 1. Demonstrate technological and behavioral efficacy of providing instructions on child restraint installation remotely to rural populations. Demonstrate >95% of interactions proceed without technical problems, without reports of communication difficulty on either end of the exchange (the parent or the technician), and without interruption.

Specific Aim 2. Identify accuracy of child restraint installation by parents using instructions provided by a remotely-located certified technician via interactive virtual presence. Demonstrate installation in this manner achieves ≥90% accuracy across all aspects of child restraint installation. Demonstrate installation in this manner significantly reduces restraint installation errors.

Conditions

Car Seat Installation

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

interactive virtual presence

install a car seat using advice from a remotely-located certified car seat technician communicating via interactive virtual presence

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

interactive virtual presence

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

installing the car seat with advice via interactive virtual presence

Interventions

interactive virtual presence

installing the car seat with advice via interactive virtual presence

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• communicate in English
• drive a vehicle with one or more car seats present
• willing to install a car seat into the vehicle

Exclusion Criteria

• none

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Alabama at Birmingham

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

David Schwebel

University Professor & Associate Dean

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

David C Schwebel, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Locations

UAB Youth Safety Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Countries

United States

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

View Document

Other Identifiers

300001220

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id