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Virtual Reality by Mobile Phone: Improving Child Pedestrian Safety

Purpose

The investigators will conduct a non-inferiority clinical trial to evaluate whether children trained in pedestrian safety amidst a Google Cardboard virtual environment achieve equivalent levels of pedestrian safety to children trained in a full semi-immersive virtual pedestrian environment

Condition

Child Pedestrian Safety

Eligibility

Eligible Ages: Between 7 Years and 8 Years
Eligible Genders: All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria

children ages 7-8 and their families - one sibling per family, randomly chosen if multiple siblings are eligible - children and parent speak English

Exclusion Criteria

disabilities that prohibit participants from valid understanding of or participation in the experimental protocol - families that plan to move more than 50 miles away over the next year - families unable to commit to frequent visits required in the study protocol

Study Design

Phase: N/A
Study Type: Interventional
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Primary Purpose: Prevention
Masking: None (Open Label)

Arm Groups

Arm	Description	Assigned Intervention
Experimental Google Cardboard virtual environment	pedestrian safety training using the Google Cardboard device and delivery of a pedestrian virtual environment by mobile smartphone. Note that children in this arm will be trained using an immersive virtual environment delivered by smartphone, which is different from the other arm that is trained using a semi-immersive virtual environment delivered in a kiosk. The intervention is pedestrian safety training for both arms.	Behavioral: pedestrian safety training in pedestrian virtual environment pedestrian safety training
Active Comparator semi-immersive virtual environment	pedestrian safety training using a semi-immersive virtual pedestrian environment kiosk. Note that children in this arm will be trained using a semi-immersive virtual environment delivered in a kiosk, which is different from the other arm that is trained using an immersive virtual environment delivered by smartphone. The intervention is pedestrian safety training for both arms.	Behavioral: pedestrian safety training in pedestrian virtual environment pedestrian safety training

More Details

Status: Completed
Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham

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