Buckle Me Up!: A Digital Emergency Department Discharge Intervention for Child Car Safety

This is a digital application that allows families to interact with a tablet computer to receive educational information customized to the patient's age and size. allows authors to develop screening, assessment, and intervention tools for patients without requiring new programming. The CIAS intervention is programmed using tailored branching logic to allow a custom path through the intervention based on the respondent's answers. Delivery of the intervention uses a two-dimensional avatar narrator character that mimics the conversational structure of person-delivered brief interventions.

Patients/families will receive standard, printed discharge instructions. This is a 5 page general document from our Injury Prevention Center that describes appropriate car restraint safety for all age groups, not specific to the child enrolled.