ArticleJAMA network open2024
Handheld Cellphone Use and Risky Driving in Adolescents.
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4 citing papers in PubMed.
- In-Vehicle Feedback With or Without Parent Communication Training and Teenage Driving Behaviors: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
- Adolescent and parent dyad perceptions on the utility and implementation ability to use cellphone-based technology to reduce distracted driving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2026Article
- A contemporary examination of the effect of driver training for reducing crash risk in novice adolescent drivers: protocol for the DRIVER study, a random assignment trial.Injury epidemiology · 2025Article
- Mechanism patterns and age variations in pediatric cranio-maxillofacial trauma: a 5-year analysis of the national trauma data bank.Oral and maxillofacial surgery · 2025Review
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Abstract
Importance: Handheld cellphone use while driving is associated with increased motor vehicle crash risk among adolescents. Objective: To examine the association of handheld cellphone use while driving with kinematic risky driving (KRD) events-hard braking and rapid acceleration-in adolescent drivers. Design, Setting, Participants: Adolescents aged 16.50 to 17.99 years licensed 365 days or less in Pennsylvania were eligible to participate in this cross-sectional study. Enrollment occurred from July 29, 2021, to June 6, 2022. Participants downloaded a smartphone telematics cellphone app to record driving data for 60 days. Exposures: Trip characteristics, including frequency, length, and duration; presence of speeding; frequency and duration of handheld cellphone use; time of day; and presence of precipitation. Main Outcomes and Measures: Kinematic risky driving events per 100 miles driven. Zero-inflated Poisson regression models examined whether individual characteristics and trip characteristics were associated with KRD. Incidence rate ratios were computed. Results: Of 405 adolescents who responded to recruitment, 151 enrolled, 140 completed study procedures, and 119 with 12 360 trips were included in the analytic sample (60 female participants [50.4%]; mean [SD] age, 17.2 [0.4] years). Adolescents drove a mean (SD) of 103.8 (65.7) trips, 565.0 (487.3) miles, and 25.1 (19.3) hours. Adolescents had minimal night trips (1.5% [192]), and few trips with precipitation present (9.0% [1097]). Speeding occurred in 43.9% (5428) of the trips and handheld cellphone use occurred in 34.1% (4214) of the trips. Kinematic risky driving events occurred in 10.9% (1358) of the trips at a rate of 2.65 per 100 miles. In adjusted models, increased KRD events were associated with handheld cellphone use (incidence rate ratio [IRR], 2.62; 95% CI, 1.53-4.48), speeding (IRR, 2.12; 95% CI, 1.06-4.26), and minutes driving (IRR, 1.02; 95% CI, 1.01-1.02). Trips at night, precipitation presence, licensure for less than 6 months, and sex were not associated with increased KRD events. Conclusions: In this cross-sectional study of adolescent drivers, trips with handheld cellphone use and speeding were associated with higher rates of KRD, while individual characteristics were not. The findings suggest that smartphone telematics apps provide an opportunity to observe behaviors as well as surveil changes due to intervention efforts.
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