Increasing Seat Belt Wearing and Decreasing Handheld Phone Use While Driving
NCT ID: NCT05469477
Last Updated: 2023-10-03
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
1139 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2023-03-12
2023-06-29
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
FACTORIAL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Control
Participants are asked to buckle up and not engage in handheld phone use while driving. No further messaging will be provided about their behavior, and participants will not receive financial incentives for avoiding risky driving behavior.
Weekly SMS Support text
Participants will receive a support SMS to troubleshoot, etc. if the Way to Drive app is not collecting trip data.
Behavioral Engagement
Participants will receive a multicomponent safer driving intervention based on behavioral science. This will include persuasive education, WOOP (mental contrasting with implementation intentions) and customized habit tips.
WOOP (aka, mental contrasting with implementation intentions., Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan)
Participants will receive an intervention on improving driving behavior with a specific goal in mind and how to reach that goal. Participants will do this by thinking through 4 parts: a wish, an outcome, an obstacle and a plan. This has been shown to build motivation, and help achieve the desired change.
Customized Habit Tips
Participants will receive weekly text-message tips, informed by findings from survey responses, plus reminders to address stated obstacles.
Weekly SMS Support text
Participants will receive a support SMS to troubleshoot, etc. if the Way to Drive app is not collecting trip data.
Weekly SMS Encouragement
Those who have a perfect streak going midway through each week will receive an additional encouraging message cheering them on.
Persuasive education
The research team will use psychology and communications research to present information about seat belts and distracted driving in a way that builds intrinsic motivation to change. Because positively framed messages are more effective at promoting seat belt wearing, the team's messaging will employ this framing. Education will address common reasons that survey participants give for not consistently buckling up or for phone use while driving.
Raffle incentive + behavioral engagement
Participants will receive the entire multicomponent safer driving behavioral intervention from arm 2. Participants will also be eligible for the Raffle Financial incentive, where participants can earn prize money for seat belt adherence and/or no phone use while driving.
WOOP (aka, mental contrasting with implementation intentions., Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan)
Participants will receive an intervention on improving driving behavior with a specific goal in mind and how to reach that goal. Participants will do this by thinking through 4 parts: a wish, an outcome, an obstacle and a plan. This has been shown to build motivation, and help achieve the desired change.
Customized Habit Tips
Participants will receive weekly text-message tips, informed by findings from survey responses, plus reminders to address stated obstacles.
Raffle Financial Incentive
Each week, participants who adhere to seat belt use or abstain from phone use while driving get a chance at prize money. One winner will be randomly chosen for each target behavior and earn prize money; the rest will not receive compensation.
Weekly SMS Support text
Participants will receive a support SMS to troubleshoot, etc. if the Way to Drive app is not collecting trip data.
Weekly SMS Encouragement
Those who have a perfect streak going midway through each week will receive an additional encouraging message cheering them on.
Persuasive education
The research team will use psychology and communications research to present information about seat belts and distracted driving in a way that builds intrinsic motivation to change. Because positively framed messages are more effective at promoting seat belt wearing, the team's messaging will employ this framing. Education will address common reasons that survey participants give for not consistently buckling up or for phone use while driving.
Shared pot incentive + behavioral engagement
Participants will receive the entire multicomponent safer driving behavioral intervention from arm 2. This arm will be identical to Arm 3, except there will be a shared pot financial incentive instead of a raffle. Participants that abstain from phone use while driving and seat belt adherence earn an equal share of prize money allocated for the entire group.
WOOP (aka, mental contrasting with implementation intentions., Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan)
Participants will receive an intervention on improving driving behavior with a specific goal in mind and how to reach that goal. Participants will do this by thinking through 4 parts: a wish, an outcome, an obstacle and a plan. This has been shown to build motivation, and help achieve the desired change.
Customized Habit Tips
Participants will receive weekly text-message tips, informed by findings from survey responses, plus reminders to address stated obstacles.
Shared Pot Financial Incentive
This will be identical to the raffle incentive, except that each week participants who adhere to seat belt use or abstain from phone use while driving will be guaranteed an equal share of prize money.
Weekly SMS Support text
Participants will receive a support SMS to troubleshoot, etc. if the Way to Drive app is not collecting trip data.
Weekly SMS Encouragement
Those who have a perfect streak going midway through each week will receive an additional encouraging message cheering them on.
Persuasive education
The research team will use psychology and communications research to present information about seat belts and distracted driving in a way that builds intrinsic motivation to change. Because positively framed messages are more effective at promoting seat belt wearing, the team's messaging will employ this framing. Education will address common reasons that survey participants give for not consistently buckling up or for phone use while driving.
Interventions
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WOOP (aka, mental contrasting with implementation intentions., Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan)
Participants will receive an intervention on improving driving behavior with a specific goal in mind and how to reach that goal. Participants will do this by thinking through 4 parts: a wish, an outcome, an obstacle and a plan. This has been shown to build motivation, and help achieve the desired change.
Customized Habit Tips
Participants will receive weekly text-message tips, informed by findings from survey responses, plus reminders to address stated obstacles.
Raffle Financial Incentive
Each week, participants who adhere to seat belt use or abstain from phone use while driving get a chance at prize money. One winner will be randomly chosen for each target behavior and earn prize money; the rest will not receive compensation.
Shared Pot Financial Incentive
This will be identical to the raffle incentive, except that each week participants who adhere to seat belt use or abstain from phone use while driving will be guaranteed an equal share of prize money.
Weekly SMS Support text
Participants will receive a support SMS to troubleshoot, etc. if the Way to Drive app is not collecting trip data.
Weekly SMS Encouragement
Those who have a perfect streak going midway through each week will receive an additional encouraging message cheering them on.
Persuasive education
The research team will use psychology and communications research to present information about seat belts and distracted driving in a way that builds intrinsic motivation to change. Because positively framed messages are more effective at promoting seat belt wearing, the team's messaging will employ this framing. Education will address common reasons that survey participants give for not consistently buckling up or for phone use while driving.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Are 18 or older.
* Meet minimum trip requirements.
* Uses vehicle with OnStar
* At least 5 weeks of baseline trip data with \>=8 trips/week at baseline on average
* Baseline seat belt use \<= 75% on trips less than 2 miles and \<= 90 on trips greater than 2 miles
* English reading ability
* Have an email address
* Have a smartphone with iPhone iOS 12 or later or Android OS 7 or later
Exclusion Criteria
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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General Motors (GM)
UNKNOWN
University of Pennsylvania
OTHER
Responsible Party
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M. Kit Delgado, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Principal Investigators
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Mucio Delgado
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Pennsylvania
Locations
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Countries
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References
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Dingus TA, Guo F, Lee S, Antin JF, Perez M, Buchanan-King M, Hankey J. Driver crash risk factors and prevalence evaluation using naturalistic driving data. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Mar 8;113(10):2636-41. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513271113. Epub 2016 Feb 22.
Gershon P, Sita KR, Zhu C, Ehsani JP, Klauer SG, Dingus TA, Simons-Morton BG. Distracted Driving, Visual Inattention, and Crash Risk Among Teenage Drivers. Am J Prev Med. 2019 Apr;56(4):494-500. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.11.024. Epub 2019 Feb 21.
Klauer SG, Guo F, Simons-Morton BG, Ouimet MC, Lee SE, Dingus TA. Distracted driving and risk of road crashes among novice and experienced drivers. N Engl J Med. 2014 Jan 2;370(1):54-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1204142.
Simons-Morton BG, Guo F, Klauer SG, Ehsani JP, Pradhan AK. Keep your eyes on the road: young driver crash risk increases according to duration of distraction. J Adolesc Health. 2014 May;54(5 Suppl):S61-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.11.021.
Ebert JP, Yan R, Friday S, Small D, McDonald CC, Bartolozzi K, Delgado MK. Behavioral Interventions for Increasing Seat Belt Use and Decreasing Distracted Driving Using Telematics: A National Randomized Trial. Am J Public Health. 2025 May;115(5):758-768. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2024.307980. Epub 2025 Mar 13.
Other Identifiers
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851411
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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