Heads Up, Phones Down: A Pedestrian Safety Intervention on Distracted Crosswalk Behavior
| Autor: | Cory McLaughlin, Jeffrey S. Upperman, Helen Arbogast, Aaron R. Jensen, Mina Farag, Erica N. Barin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Adolescent education Psychological intervention Walking Pedestrian Audiology behavioral disciplines and activities Cohort Studies 03 medical and health sciences Risk-Taking 0302 clinical medicine Phone Distraction Intervention (counseling) 0502 economics and business Injury prevention medicine Humans Prospective Studies 030212 general & internal medicine Child Pedestrians Text Messaging 050210 logistics & transportation Schools 05 social sciences Accidents Traffic Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health humanities Community health Female Public Health Safety Psychology human activities Cell Phone psychological phenomena and processes Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Community Health. 43:810-815 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3610 0094-5145 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10900-018-0488-y |
| Popis: | Cell phone use has been implicated in driver distraction and motor vehicle crashes, and more recently has been associated with distracted pedestrians. There are limited data on interventions aimed at this important public health issue. We hypothesized that the use of a visual intervention near street crossings would decrease the frequency of distracted behaviors of pedestrians. We performed a prospective observational cohort study examining painted sidewalk stencils reading, “Heads Up, Phones Down” as an intervention to decrease cell phone distractions amongst pedestrians. These stenciled messages were placed at a children’s hospital, middle school, and high school in Los Angeles County. Anonymous observations of pedestrian distractions (texting, talking on a phone, headphone use, and other) were conducted before, 1 week after, and 4 months after the intervention. Distractions were compared before and after intervention using Chi square tests. A total of 11,533 pedestrians were observed, with 71% children and 29% adults. Total distractions decreased from 23% pre-intervention to 17% 1 week after stencil placement (p |
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