Reducing Risky Teen Cellphone Use While Driving Using Behavioral Economics, Technology, and Epidemiology

利用行为经济学、技术和流行病学来减少青少年开车时使用手机的风险

• 批准号: 9761848
• 负责人: Mucio Delgado
• 金额: $ 16.87万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9761848
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adolescent and Young Adult; Age; Automobile Driving; Award; Awareness; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Behavioral; Behavioral Mechanisms; Cause of Death; Cellular Phone; Cognitive; Contracts; Dangerousness; Data; Education; Effectiveness; Epidemiology; Event; Failure; Funding; Future; G Forces; Glean; Global Positioning System; Health; Healthy People 2020; High School Student; Hour; Human Resources; Incentives; Individual; Injury; Insurance; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Intervention Trial; K-Series Research Career Programs; Lead; Learning; Legal; Measurement; Measures; Mediating; Mentors; Modeling; Parents; Population; Preventive Intervention; Process; Psychology; Public Health; Randomized; Randomized Controlled Trials; Research; Research Personnel; Rewards; Risk Behaviors; Safety; Sample Size; Scientist; Secure; Self-control as a personality trait; Surveys; Techniques; Technology; Teenagers; Telephone; Testing; Text; Text Messaging; Time; Training; Validation; Vehicle crash; Work; Young driver; adolescent health; age group; arm; base; behavior change; behavioral economics; cohort; control trial; design; distracted driving; distraction; driving safety; epidemiology study; experience; experimental study; high risk; improved; injury prevention; innovation; insight; mobile application; mobile computing; motivated behavior; novel; novel strategies; patient oriented; preference; programs; randomized trial; skills; smartphone Application; social; success; theories; therapy design; therapy development; treatment arm; young adult

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The purpose of this K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Career Development Award is to enable Dr. Delgado to gain the experience and skills necessary to become an independent investigator focused on developing and testing novel, behavioral economic interventions for reducing injury causing behaviors in teens and young adults. Dr. Delgado's central hypothesis is that insights from the field of behavioral economics help explain why many behavioral injury prevention interventions are ineffective, and that leveraging these insights through mobile technology interventions can lead to more effective reductions in injury causing behaviors. This Award will provide four years of protected time for Dr. Delgado to acquire the skills necessary to secure independent funding as a translational injury prevention scientist through a training plan that includes mentored research, coursework, and guided independent study. Specifically, in the experimental study of cellphone use while driving Dr. Delgado will: (1) Learn to apply theories and mechanisms of behavior change for injury prevention in adolescents and young adults; (2) Develop skills for designing and refining mobile behavior change interventions for injury prevention; and (3) Develop skills for conducting randomized trials of behavioral economic interventions. Dr. Delgado and his experienced, cross-disciplinary team of mentors and advisors will test the potential for behavioral economics to enhance self-control related injury prevention interventions by focusing on the significant health risk behavior of texting while driving. Most of Dr. Delgado's training will be invested in mentored research, carrying out an innovative research plan in which he will: (1) Design and iteratively refine a theoretically guided behavioral economic intervention to reduce teen handheld cellphone use while driving; (2) Pilot a randomized trial to determine the feasibility and acceptability of implementing this behavioral economic intervention; and (3) Identify the measure of cellphone use while driving most associated with safety events for use in for an R01-level trial to determine effectiveness of the piloted intervention. This work is significant since nearly half of U.S. teens admit to texting while driving despite knowing that distracted driving is risky, leading to over 400,000 crashes per year. Educational campaigns, pledges, and legal bans have had limited impact on curbing this behavior. And given this, distracted driving from cellphone use has been identified as a top emerging cause of injury in need for future research in the US Healthy People 2020 objectives. This work is innovative as leveraging behavioral economics is a novel approach to reducing injury with the potential to be broadly applicable across many adolescent health risk behaviors and problems of self-control.

项目总结/摘要 这个K23指导的以患者为导向的职业发展奖的目的是使德尔加多博士， 获得成为独立调查员所需的经验和技能，专注于发展和 测试新的行为经济干预措施，以减少青少年和年轻人的伤害行为 成年人了德尔加多博士的中心假设是，行为经济学领域的见解有助于解释 为什么许多行为伤害预防干预措施是无效的，以及利用这些见解， 移动的技术干预可以更有效地减少致伤行为。这个奖项 将为德尔加多博士提供四年的受保护时间，以获得确保独立的必要技能。 通过培训计划资助作为翻译伤害预防科学家，包括指导研究， 课程，并指导独立学习。具体来说，在使用手机的实验研究中， 德尔加多博士将：（1）学习应用行为改变的理论和机制，以预防伤害 在青少年和年轻人;（2）发展技能，设计和完善移动的行为改变 预防伤害的干预措施;（3）发展进行行为随机试验的技能 经济干预。 德尔加多博士和他的经验丰富，跨学科的导师和顾问团队将测试的潜力， 行为经济学，以加强自我控制相关的伤害预防干预，重点是 开车时发短信的重大健康风险行为德尔加多博士的大部分训练将用于 指导研究，进行创新的研究计划，他将：（1）设计和迭代完善一个 理论指导的行为经济干预，以减少青少年在驾驶时使用手持手机;（2） 进行随机试验，以确定实施这种行为经济学的可行性和可接受性 干预;（3）确定驾驶时使用手机与安全事件最相关的措施， 用于R 01级试验，以确定试点干预的有效性。这项工作意义重大，因为 近一半的美国青少年承认在开车时发短信，尽管他们知道分心驾驶是危险的， 每年超过40万起撞车事故。教育运动、承诺和法律的禁令对 遏制这种行为。有鉴于此，使用手机分心驾驶已被确定为 在美国2020年健康人群目标中需要未来研究的新损伤原因。这项工作是 利用行为经济学的创新是一种减少伤害的新方法， 广泛适用于许多青少年健康风险行为和自我控制问题。