Virtual Reality by Mobile Phone: Improving Child Pedestrian Safety

University of Alabama at Birmingham500 enrolled

Overview

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

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

500

Conditions

Child Pedestrian Safety

Interventions

pedestrian safety training in pedestrian virtual environmentBEHAVIORAL

pedestrian safety training

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 7 YearsMax age: 8 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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 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

Locations (1)

UAB Youth Safety Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Risky Crossings

risky crossings in virtual environment setting, indicated by hits/close calls while crossing virtual street

Time frame: 3.5 months after baseline (about 1 week after completion of all training)

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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