Journal article
Children's pedestrian route selection: Efficacy of a video and internet training protocol
Transportation research. Part F, Traffic psychology and behaviour, Vol.26, pp.171-179
09/01/2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2014.07.005
PMCID: PMC4142561
PMID: 25170289
Abstract
Objective: This randomized controlled trial examined one aspect of child pedestrian behavior, route selection across intersections, to evaluate whether a combination of widely-available videos and websites effectively train children in safe pedestrian route selection compared to active pedestrian safety control training and a no-contact control group.
Methods: A sample of 231 seven- and eight-year-olds were randomly assigned to one of four groups: training with videos and internet websites, active control groups of individualized streetside training or training within a virtual pedestrian environment, or a no-contact control group. All training groups received six 30-min training sessions. Pedestrian route selection was assessed using two strategies, vignettes accompanied by illustrations and tabletop models of intersections, on three occasions: prior to intervention group assignment, immediately post-training, and six months after training.
Results: Although there were differences in route selection overtime, no time by condition interaction effects were significant (ps >.05), suggesting children in the video/internet training group did not learn pedestrian route selection skills at a rate different from those in the other training groups or those in the no-contact control group.
Conclusion: Safe route selection is a critical component of pedestrian safety. Our results suggest children may not learn route selection from widely-available videos or websites. Explanations for the null finding and implications for both research and future practice are discussed. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Children's pedestrian route selection: Efficacy of a video and internet training protocol
- Creators
- David C. Schwebel - University of Alabama at BirminghamLeslie A. McClure - University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Transportation research. Part F, Traffic psychology and behaviour, Vol.26, pp.171-179
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.trf.2014.07.005
- PMID
- 25170289
- PMCID
- PMC4142561
- NLM abbreviation
- Transp Res Part F Traffic Psychol Behav
- ISSN
- 1369-8478
- eISSN
- 1873-5517
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Research Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984949191002771
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