Feedback and Financial Incentives for Reducing Cell Phone Use While Driving: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Handheld phone use while driving is a major factor in vehicle crashes. Scalable interventions are needed to encourage drivers not to use their phones.

Objective

To test whether interventions involving social comparison feedback and/or financial incentives can reduce drivers' handheld phone use.

Design, setting, and participants

In a randomized clinical trial, interventions were administered nationwide in the US via a mobile application in the context of a usage-based insurance program (Snapshot Mobile application). Customers were eligible to be invited to participate in the study if enrolled in the usage-based insurance program for 30 to 70 days. The study was conducted from May 13 to June 30, 2019. Analysis was completed December 22, 2023.

Interventions

SUBMITTER: Delgado MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11238027 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature