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Restraint use characteristics among crash-involved child passengers: identifying opportunities to enhance optimal restraint use

Restraint use characteristics among crash-involved child passengers: identifying opportunities to enhance optimal restraint use

Publications

Allison Curry, Rachel Myers, and team at CHOP CIRP assessed the prevalence of and characteristics related to restraint use from a sample of police reports for motor vehicle crashes that involved a child passenger. They found that optimal age-based restraint use was...
American Academy of Pediatrics: Teen Drivers Often Unsafe on the Road with Speeding and Handheld Cellphone Use

American Academy of Pediatrics: Teen Drivers Often Unsafe on the Road with Speeding and Handheld Cellphone Use

News

A study from Kate McDonald, Kit Delgado, Kevin Rix, Jeff Ebert, and colleagues was featured in a press release from the American Academy of Pediatrics, picked up by Science Daily, and re-shared by Penn Today. Assessing risky teen driving behaviors via smartphone app,...
Effectiveness of a Text Message Intervention Promoting Seat Belt Use Among Young Adults

Effectiveness of a Text Message Intervention Promoting Seat Belt Use Among Young Adults

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Kate McDonald, Kit Delgado, and colleagues demonstrated the effectiveness of a text-messaging program in increasing young adult seat belt use. Among young adults who reported not wearing a seat belt at baseline, 41% in the intervention group used a seat belt at six...
Improving identification of crash injuries: Statewide integration of hospital discharge and crash report data

Improving identification of crash injuries: Statewide integration of hospital discharge and crash report data

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Allison Curry and a team of researchers at CHOP and Penn aimed to link hospital discharge data with police crash reports to more accurately account for crash injuries. They found that each data source in isolation misses approximately one-third of injured individuals...
American Academy of Pediatrics: Teen Drivers Often Unsafe on the Road with Speeding and Handheld Cellphone Use

Effectiveness of a Text Message Intervention to Reduce Texting While Driving Among Targeted Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Kate McDonald, Kit Delgado, and colleagues tested the efficacy of a 6-week text message program to reduce texting while driving for young adults, which was more effective as reducing self-reported texting while driving at 12 weeks compared to the control group. Read...
Ride-hailing and Road Traffic Crashes: A Critical Review

Ride-hailing and Road Traffic Crashes: A Critical Review

Publications

A recent study led by PISC Past Trainee Christopher Morrison, PhD, and International Scholar David Humphreys, PhD, analyzes the impact ride-hailing businesses have on the incidence and distribution of road traffic crash injuries and deaths. Data is analyzed through a...
Space-Time Characteristics of Adolescents’ Cell Phone Use While Driving

Space-Time Characteristics of Adolescents’ Cell Phone Use While Driving

This study uses telematics to identify the spatial and temporal characteristics of adolescent cell phone use while driving, as well as the “risky driving” patterns that are associated with it, so that we can develop messaging and interventions to reduce...

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