A team of CHOP researchers, including Allison Curry and Rachel Myers, sought to understand which drivers are more likely to drive unbelted. While seat belt use was more frequent than previously estimated, the study found certain demographic and contextual factors were...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
