Reducing Cell Phone Use While Driving Among High Risk UBI Auto Policy Holders

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

1,668

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 1, 2021

Primary Completion Date

May 23, 2021

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2021

Conditions
Distracted DrivingDriving Impaired
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Free Phone Mounts

Participants will receive free phone mounts

BEHAVIORAL

Commitment Contract

Participants will develop and sign a personalized commitment contract where they will create their own weekly goals for phone use reduction, and plan potential future obstacles that may hinder them from reaching their goal and how and plan to overcome that obstacle.

BEHAVIORAL

Personalized Habit Tips

Participants will receive weekly habit formation tips by text message. These messages will be tailored to encourage use of phone mounts, setting up do not disturb while driving, and include their personal obstacles and plans they developed to overcome.

BEHAVIORAL

Social Gamification Feedback

"Each week of the intervention period, the participant will be notified whether they met their prior week's goal, stayed about the same, or backslid. Participants will all start with 100 points, and can gain/maintain/lose points each week in the intervention period. Levels are as follows:~Copper: 0-40 points Bronze: 50-80 points Silver: 90-120 points Gold: 130-160 points Platinum: 170-200 points~Social competition: participants will be placed in groups of 10 based on similarity of baseline phone use. Weekly leaderboard reports will be sent via email, with SMS reminder. In the leaderboard they'll see themselves as You."

BEHAVIORAL

"Contest Financial Incentives"

"Participants who finish in the platinum level will receive equal share of a prize, or a small amount will be awarded each week over the course of the intervention period to the weekly Safest Driver in each of the social competition cohorts."

Trial Locations (1)

19104

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Progressive Auto Insurance

UNKNOWN

lead

University of Pennsylvania

OTHER

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