UAB Youth Safety Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States
Completed
NCT Number: NCT02948400
Virtual Reality by Mobile Phone: Improving Child Pedestrian Safety
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
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Conditions
Age range
7 year–8 year
Sex eligibility
All sexes
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Primary location
Who can participate
Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
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
Treatment and study plan
pedestrian safety training in pedestrian virtual environment
Behavioralpedestrian safety training
Primary outcomes
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Risky Crossings
Time frame: 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
Sponsors and collaborators
Lead sponsor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Other
Collaborators
- Drexel University
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Registry information
Important dates
- Study start
- 2016
- Primary completion
- 2022
- Study completion
- 2022
- First posted
- Oct 28, 2016
- Registry last updated
- Jan 31, 2024
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