NCT03833219

Comparative Effectiveness of Financial Incentives and Nudges to Reduce Cellphone Use While Driving Among UBI Auto Policy Holders

Comparative Effectiveness of Financial Incentives and Smartphone-based Nudges to Reduce Cellphone Use While Driving Among Auto Insurance Policy Holders With Usage Based Insurance Policies

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,108 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators are proposing an experiment to help a national auto insurance company test behavioral economic strategies to reduce the amount of time policy holders actively use their cell phone while driving. Interventions include financial incentives, social comparison, and nudges, and survey data will also be collected. Data collected from this internal trial will be shared with the Penn research team and analyzed

Conditions

• Automobile Accident

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Weekly feedback	Send push notification reporting user's handheld phone use while driving compared to distribution for driver cohort (age, geographic area) each week.
BEHAVIORAL	End of intervention period incentive	Notify participant about potential incentive at the end of the intervention period, but do not provide weekly feedback about performance.
BEHAVIORAL	Loss-framed weekly incentive	Send push notification reporting user's handheld phone use while driving compared to distribution for driver cohort (age, geographic area) each week. Pay participant weekly according to where they fall on the distribution each week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-07
• Primary completion: 2019-10-30
• Completion: 2020-08-30
• First posted: 2019-02-06
• Last updated: 2020-09-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States