Hazard Anticipation Program for Parents of Teen Drivers

Parents and teens who receive the intervention will complete a web-based training that provides parents with guidance on how to teach their teen to identify potential hazards on the roadway. The program begins by providing background on teens' difficulty learning this skill and the motivational interviewing techniques that are being used in the course. Parents then engage with a series of hazard videos. For each hazard, parents watch the hazard unfold, provide an example of what they might say to their teen in that, and are provided with examples of how to coach their teen through the hazard before it becomes a critical event. Parents and teens then jointly watch 12 videos depicting hazards unfolding on the roadway. Teens are asked to identify the hazard without parental input by pressing a spacebar. Teens must also indicate what they believe was the key event that caused the hazard. Then parents and teens are given an opportunity to replay the video and discuss the hazard together.