Family Communication Patterns and Teen Driving Intervention Effectiveness

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ID15329281
AutoresCara Hamann (0000-0001-8916-7285, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center and Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA;, Email: [email protected], autor de correspondencia), Laura Schwab-Reese (Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Kinesiology, Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences, West Lafayette, IN), Laura M Schwab‐reese (0000-0002-9174-1730, Purdue University West Lafayette), Elizabeth E O'Neal (0000-0002-3934-4009, University of Iowa National Advanced Driving Simulator, Iowa City, IA), Brandon Butcher (0000-0001-7170-6025, University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center, Iowa City, IA), Jingzhen Yang (0000-0003-4019-0999, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Nationwide Children's Hospital Center for Injury Research and Policy, Columbus, OH), Corinne Peek‐Asa (0000-0001-9472-2538, Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health, and Director, University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center Iowa City, IA)
Año2019
Volumen43
Número5
Páginas963-975
Fecha de publicación2019-08-23
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Health Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1087-3244 • E-ISSN: 1945-7359
EditorialPNG Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5993/ajhb.43.5.8
PMID31439102
OpenAlexW2969834483
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas4

Objectives: Teen drivers are at increased crash risk, largely due to lack of experience. Parents play a key role in influencing teen behaviors and attitudes around driving safety. Parent-involved interventions may improve teen driving safety but tend to be resource intensive and have limited scalability. In this study, we examined how family communication patterns (FCPs) impact teen risky driving and the effectiveness of a parent-focused teen driving intervention. Methods: Our data came from a large randomized controlled teen driving intervention trial. We randomized parent-teen dyads into one of 3 groups: parent communication intervention plus in-vehicle event recorder feedback ; in-vehicle event recorder feedback only ; or control . The primary outcome variable was teen risky driving (self-reports and triggered events); the primary exposure variables were FCPs and intervention group. We used generalized linear models to calculate effect estimates. Results: Teens' baseline risky driving did not vary by family communication pattern. The impact of the parent-focused intervention was stronger in families with a laissez-faire FCP. The laissez-faire FCP focuses little on child conformity and downplays communication. Conclusions: These results provide a framework for targeting high-resource teen driving interventions (event recorder feedback and parent-communication training) to families with laissez-faire communication patterns to attain the greatest risk reductions

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