An interventional study of Functional Meta-Cognitive Intervention and The employer's training in Human Risk Factors, Driving Behavior and Meta-cognition, sponsored by Tel Aviv University. Completed. Open to male participants aged 21 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-09-16.
Sponsored by Tel Aviv University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The objective of the study is to examine the effectiveness of a functional-meta-cognitive intervention program to reduce driving risk factors amongst professional bus drivers.
In Israel, the percentage of professional drivers involved in lethal car accidents is high in relation to their number on the roads. Every car accident involving a bus driver could potentially put at risk the lives of tens of passengers, and cause damages both direct and indirect at high costs. Due to the high risk of the bus drivers and their passengers, it is highly important to identify and improve the driving characteristics which are necessary for safer driving of said drivers. Many studies have assessed and identified the risk factors of safe driving, but there is relatively little research-based evidence concerning the ability to improve the driving skills of drivers in general and in particular of bus drivers, which are considered a high risk group.
According to the National Road Safety Authority, 88% of road accidents are caused by driver errors. Therefore, the real challenge is to provide a better understanding in the role of human factors in causing road accidents to try and develop a variety of effective interventions to reduce these risk factors. This understanding can contribute both to a better assessment of professional drivers' driving fitness and to intervene accordingly. In this study, we have focused on main aspects that exist in relevant literature and are human risk factors: Cognitive-perceptual, ergonomic and personality risk factors, and checked the connection between these risk factors and actual monitored driving scores as recorder by an In-Vehicle Data Recorder (IVDR). In addition, we examined the effectiveness of a functional-meta-cognitive intervention program designed to increase drivers' awareness to their way of driving. The research model is based on previous driving models and the guiding occupational therapy practice framework model in Israel, while adjusting the model to the professional driving in public transportation line of work and its particular risk factors.
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The intervention is aimed to improve human factors of professional bus drivers
Behavioral: Functional Meta-Cognitive Intervention
The control group had the employer's training - The company holds routine covert inspections, summons to conversations with the security offices and records in the drivers' personal files.
Behavioral: The employer's training
Functional-Meta-Cognitive Intervention Program was focused on raising awareness to safe driving risk factors identified at pre-screening, with reference to the difficulties that the driver raises and providing coping strategies. The intervention has been customized for each driver and included three sessions of two hours.
Change in In Vehicle Data Recorder (IVDR) risk score
Assessing the degree of change in the rate of IVDR events before and after intervention.
Time frame: Change from baseline IVDR risk score at 1 year
Change in car accident rate
Assessing the change in the rate of accidents per year before and after the intervention in the intervention group.
Time frame: Change from ratings of questionnaire pre intervention to ratings at an average of 1 year post intervention.
Change in subjective ratings of driving performance questionnaire.
Assessing the change in the subjective ratings of the level of performance and of satisfaction with performance before and after the intervention in the intervention group.
Time frame: Change from ratings of questionnaire at baseline pre intervention to reratings at an average of 1 year post intervention..
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