ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2015
The association between states' texting regulations and the prevalence of texting while driving among U.S. high school students.
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- Short-term impacts of all-driver handheld cellphone bans on high-schoolers' texting while driving: quasi-experimental analyses of Illinois and Georgia.Accident; analysis and prevention · 2023Article
- Challenges of enforcing cellphone use while driving laws among police in the USA: a cross-sectional analysis.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Driving contradictions: behaviors and attitudes regarding handheld and hands-free cellphone use while driving among young drivers.Injury epidemiology · 2021Article
- Cellphone laws and teens' calling while driving: analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019.Injury epidemiology · 2020Article
- 'Just Drive': An Employee-Based Intervention to Reduce Distracted Driving.Journal of community health · 2020Article
- Challenges of enforcing cell phone use while driving laws among police: a qualitative study.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2019Article
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- Texting/Emailing While Driving Among High School Students in 35 States, United States, 2015.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2018Article
- Risk Perceptions of Cellphone Use While Driving: Results from a Delphi Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Cellphone Legislation and Self-Reported Behaviors Among Subgroups of Adolescent U.S. Drivers.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2018Article
- The association between handheld phone bans and the prevalence of handheld phone conversations among young drivers in the United States.Annals of epidemiology · 2016Observational
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Abstract
purposeTo determine which distracted driving laws were associated with decreased texting while driving among U.S. teenage drivers.
methodsData from the 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey were merged with states' distracted driving legislation. The prevalence of texting while driving was assessed for different laws using log-binomial regression.
resultsApproximately 39.0% of students reported texting while driving at least once in the 30 days before survey. Compared to states with universal texting bans along with young driver all cellphone bans, the adjusted ratio of texting while driving was 0.94 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.77-1.16) in states with no bans, 1.33 (95% CI, 1.11-1.58) for young driver bans only, 1.24 (95% CI, 1.00-1.52) in states with bans for young drivers but no young driver all cellphone bans, and 0.89 (95% CI, 0.66-1.19) in states with universal texting bans. The prevalence of texting was 28% less in states with delays of full licensure for texting offenses (prevalence ratio = 0.72; 95% CI, 0.59-0.88).
conclusionsUniversal texting bans along with young driver all cellphone bans may be more effective in reducing texting while driving. Delays of full licensure may dissuade young drivers from texting and driving.
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