Research Grants to Prevent Unintentional Injuries

在所有司机中，驾驶员在获得执照的前六个月内的撞车率最高， 他们自己、乘客和被撞者可能会受伤。父母在驾驶中起着关键作用 他们孩子的经历。政策办法，如分级驾驶执照制度，以及 鼓励父母制定驾驶规则和限制的教育计划显示， 成功地减少了青少年的危险驾驶。然而，增加父母参与教学的方法， 驾驶技能和鼓励安全驾驶行为尚未得到广泛测试。这些干预措施可以 通过增加父母的知识和参与学习驾驶来增强现有的GDL系统。 这项研究的长期目标是开发一种可持续和可推广的干预措施， 通过增加安全驾驶实践，减少青少年司机的撞车事故和相关伤害。我们建议 进行一项随机试验的教育干预的父母新持牌青少年司机， 增加父母参与教授驾驶技能和安全驾驶行为。六所学校在小城镇 爱荷华州的所有人都同意参加这些学校都在爱荷华州得梅因50英里范围内 最大的城市，这将导致在农村和城镇环境中驾驶暴露。 干预将有两个组成部分：干预内容和干预交付。的 干预内容包括父母与青少年司机会面的具体驾驶目标， 技能和行为。该项目将在农村人口中进行，因此在农村道路上驾驶的技能将 包括.干预措施的实施将使用动机访谈，一个成功的和适合年龄的 健康行为传播技术在相关健康领域取得了巨大成功。 250名父母和他们的青少年将被随机分为干预组和对照组。的 干预组将接受交通安全专家的量身定制的亲自干预，并进行随访 在一个月、三个月和六个月时进行干预电话。对照组将是一个“常规护理”组， 向所有新司机及其父母提供驾驶安全材料。父母和青少年将 跟踪观察干预父母是否达到了干预的驾驶目标， 报告与对照组相比，干预组的驾驶技能和行为有所改善。

Drivers in their first six months of licensure have the highest crash rates of all drivers, leading to high rates of injury for themselves, their passengers, and those they hit. Parents play a critical role in the driving experience of their children. Policy approaches, such as Graduated Driver's Licensing Systems, and educational programs that encourage parents to define driving rules and restrictions have shown some success in reducing teen risky driving.However, methods to increase parental involvement in teaching driving skills and encouraging safe driving behaviors have not been widely tested. Such interventions can augment existing GDL systems by increasing parental knowledge and involvement in learning to drive. The long-range goal of this research is to develop a sustainable and generalizable intervention that will reduce crashes and related injuries among teen drivers by increasing safe driving practices. We propose to conduct a randomized trial of an educational intervention for parents of newly licensed teenaged drivers to increase parental involvement in teaching driving skills and safe driving behavior. Six schools in small towns in the state of Iowa have agreed to participate. These schools are all within 50 miles of Des Moines, Iowa's largest city, which will lead to driving exposure in rural and town environments. The intervention will have two components: the intervention content and the intervention delivery. The intervention content includes specific driving goals that parents meet with their teen drivers that focus on skills and behavior. This project will be conducted in a rural population, so skills for driving on rural roads will be included. The delivery of the intervention will use motivational interviewing, a successful and ageappropriate health behavior communication technique that has shown great success in related health fields. 250 parents and their teens will be individually randomized into intervention and control groups. The intervention group will receive a tailored, in-person intervention with a Traffic Safety Specialist, with follow-up intervention phone calls at one, three, and six months. The control group will be a "usual care" group who will receive driving safety materials available to all new drivers and their parents. Parents and teens will be followed to see if intervention parents meet the intervention's driving goals and to see if the parent and teens report improved driving skills and behaviors in the intervention compared with the control group.