Family Communication Patterns and Teen Driving Intervention Effectiveness.

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 scalabi...

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Published in:American Journal of Health Behavior Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 963 - 975
Main Authors: Hamann, Cara, Schwab-Reese, Laura, O’Neal, Elizabeth E., Butcher, Brandon, Jingzhen Yang, Peek-Asa, Corinne
Format: research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article
Published: PNG Publications Sep/Oct2019
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          Hamann, Cara
          Schwab-Reese, Laura
          O’Neal, Elizabeth E.
          Butcher, Brandon
          Jingzhen Yang
          Peek-Asa, Corinne
        affil: Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center, Iowa City, IA.
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          Family Relations
          Communication
          Automobile Driving In Adolescence
          Safety
          Risk Taking Behavior
          Human
          Randomized Controlled Trials
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          Adolescence
          Parent-Child Relations
          Parents
          Feedback
          Harm Reduction
          Self Report
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          Male
          Female
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          Goodness of Fit Chi Square Test
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          Adolescent: 13-18 years
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      ab: 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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