Journal article
Family Communication Patterns and Teen Driving Intervention Effectiveness
American journal of health behavior, Vol.43(5), pp.963-975
09/01/2019
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.43.5.8
PMCID: PMC7654442
PMID: 31439102
Abstract
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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Family Communication Patterns and Teen Driving Intervention Effectiveness
- Creators
- Cara Hamann - 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: cara-hamann@uiowa.eduLaura Schwab-Reese - Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Kinesiology, Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences, West Lafayette, INElizabeth O'Neal - University of Iowa National Advanced Driving Simulator, Iowa City, IABrandon Butcher - University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center, Iowa City, IAJingzhen Yang - Associate Professor, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Nationwide Children's Hospital Center for Injury Research and Policy, Columbus, OHCorinne Peek-Asa - 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
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of health behavior, Vol.43(5), pp.963-975
- DOI
- 10.5993/AJHB.43.5.8
- PMID
- 31439102
- PMCID
- PMC7654442
- NLM abbreviation
- Am J Health Behav
- ISSN
- 1087-3244
- eISSN
- 1945-7359
- Publisher
- PNG Publications
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Nursing; Center for Social Science Innovation; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive); Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984214689202771
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