Improving Child Restraint Installation

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Car Seat Installation
• Interventions: Behavioral: interactive virtual presence

• Registration Number: NCT03508843
• Lead Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-04-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-04-24
• Study First Posted: 2018-04-26
• Study Start: 2018-06-09
• Primary Completion: 2018-10-13
• Study Completion: 2018-10-13
• Results First Submitted: 2019-08-23
• Status Verified: 2019-10
• Results First Submitted QC: 2019-10-17
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-10-17
• Results First Posted: 2019-10-18
• Last Update Posted: 2019-10-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

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

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Exclusion Criteria

• none

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

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

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Participants Who Install the Child Restraint Accurately Into the Vehicle	immediately (< 5 minutes) after the car seat is installed	accurate installation of the child restraint into the vehicle
Number of Participants Who Properly Position the Child Restraint in the Vehicle	immediately (< 5 minutes) after the car seat is installed	proper positioning of the child restraint in the vehicle
Number of Participants Who Accurately Select a Safe Child Restraint	immediately (< 5 minutes) after the car seat is installed	accurate selection of a safe child restraint that was proper for the child's age and size

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

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