Virtual Reality by Mobile Phone: Improving Child Pedestrian Safety

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Child Pedestrian Safety
• Interventions: Behavioral: pedestrian safety training in pedestrian virtual environment

• Registration Number: NCT02948400
• Lead Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham

Brief Summary

The investigators will conduct a non-inferiority clinical trial to evaluate whether children trained in pedestrian safety amidst a Google Cardboard virtual environment achieve equivalent levels of pedestrian safety to children trained in a full semi-immersive virtual pedestrian environment

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2016-10-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-10-27
• Study First Posted: 2016-10-28
• Study Start: 2016-12
• Primary Completion: 2022-12-20
• Study Completion: 2022-12-20
• Results First Submitted: 2023-11-27
• Status Verified: 2024-01
• Results First Submitted QC: 2024-01-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-01-03
• Results First Posted: 2024-01-31
• Last Update Posted: 2024-01-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 500

Inclusion Criteria

• children ages 7-8 and their families
• one sibling per family, randomly chosen if multiple siblings are eligible
• children and parent speak English

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Exclusion Criteria

• disabilities that prohibit participants from valid understanding of or participation in the experimental protocol
• families that plan to move more than 50 miles away over the next year
• families unable to commit to frequent visits required in the study protocol

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Google Cardboard virtual environment	pedestrian safety training in pedestrian virtual environment	pedestrian safety training using the Google Cardboard device and delivery of a pedestrian virtual environment by mobile smartphone. Note that children in this arm will be trained using an immersive virtual environment delivered by smartphone, which is different from the other arm that is trained using a semi-immersive virtual environment delivered in a kiosk. The intervention is pedestrian safety training for both arms.
semi-immersive virtual environment	pedestrian safety training in pedestrian virtual environment	pedestrian safety training using a semi-immersive virtual pedestrian environment kiosk. Note that children in this arm will be trained using a semi-immersive virtual environment delivered in a kiosk, which is different from the other arm that is trained using an immersive virtual environment delivered by smartphone. The intervention is pedestrian safety training for both arms.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Risky Crossings	3.5 months after baseline (about 1 week after completion of all training)	risky crossings in virtual environment setting, indicated by hits/close calls while crossing virtual street

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UAB Youth Safety Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham; 🇺🇸 Birmingham, Alabama, United States