A pilot hospital-school educational program to address teen motor vehicle safety
This study tested the hypothesis that the Be in the Zone (BITZ) program, a hospital-school collaborative pilot intervention designed to combat the practice of texting while driving among teenage drivers, would effectively reduce this growing problem. The intervention's first phase surveyed high school student leaders who participated in a half-day interactive educational session in a pediatric hospital. In the second phase, students drew on what they learned from the educational session to plan and implement a yearlong peer-to-peer campaign with a "no texting while driving" message. Self-reported texting while driving rates were found to decrease after students' participation in the educational session. Unannounced driver observations reported a decrease in the rate of texting while driving after the implementation of the campaign. The authors suggest that, in the short term, combining hospital-school partnerships with a peer-driven educational approach can effectively reduce texting while driving among teenagers.
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Authors:
- Unni, Purnima
- Morrow, Stephen E
- Shultz, Barbara L
- Tian, Tina T
- Publication Date: 2013-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: pp S285-S289
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Serial:
- Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
- Volume: 75
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- ISSN: 2163-0755
- EISSN: 2163-0763
- Serial URL: http://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Education; Highway safety; Hospitals; Peer groups; Safety programs; Schools; Teenage drivers; Text messaging
- Uncontrolled Terms: Intervention; Pilot programs
- Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01498888
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 21 2013 9:12AM