NCT04408417

Automated Harness Tightener for Child Safety Seat

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 92 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a tensioning progress indicator light to achieve proper harness tensioning in child safety seats.

Detailed description

The primary objective of the study is to determine whether a prototype convertible child safety seat with visual indication of successful tensioning technology reduces the amount of harness slack compared with a standard safety seat. The secondary objective of the study is to assess caregivers' perceptions of the quality, design, and ease of use of the prototype child safety seat tensioning progress indicator lights. Participants will be parents/caregivers aged 18 to 75 years of children between 6 and 24 months of age. Approximately 130 caregiver-child dyads will be enrolled. Participants will be asked to harness their child into two versions of a convertible child safety seat, twice in each car seat. The intervention seat will be equipped with the technology that gives visual indication of successful harness tensioning. Participants will be observed, assessed, and asked a series of survey questions after each harnessing period.

Conditions

• Child Passenger Safety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Prototype child safety seat with tension indicator lights	The prototype child safety seat is a convertible rear-facing seat with a harness system that includes tension indicator lights.
DEVICE	Control child safety seat	The control child safety seat is a convertible rear-facing seat without tension indicator lights.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-01
• Primary completion: 2021-10-15
• Completion: 2021-10-15
• First posted: 2020-05-29
• Last updated: 2022-02-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States