Researchers at National Institutes of Health Have Reported New Data on Risk Management (Cell Phone Use While Driving: Prospective Association with…

Researchers at National Institutes of Health Have Reported New Data on Risk Management (Cell Phone Use While Driving: Prospective Association with Emerging Adult Use)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Investigators publish new report on Risk Management. According to news reporting originating in Bethesda, Maryland, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "Secondary task engagement such as cell phone use while driving is a common behavior among adolescents and emerging adults. Texting and other distracting cell phone use in this population contributes to the high rate of fatal car crashes."

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the National Institutes of Health, "Peer engagement in similar risky driving behaviors, such as texting, could socially influence driver phone use behavior. The present study investigates the prospective association between peer and emerging adult texting while driving the first year after high school. Surveys were conducted with a national sample of emerging adults and their nominated peers. Binomial logistic regression analyses, adjusting for gender, race/ethnicity, parental education, and family affluence, showed that participants (n = 212) with peers (n = 675) who reported frequently texting while driving, were significantly more likely to text while driving the following year (odds ratio, 3.01; 95% CI, 1.19-7.59; P = 0.05)."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "The findings are consistent with the idea that peer texting behavior influences the prevalence of texting while driving among emerging adults."

For more information on this research see: Cell Phone Use While Driving: Prospective Association with Emerging Adult Use. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2017;106():450-455. Accident Analysis and Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis and Prevention - www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting N. Trivedi, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Natl Inst Child Hlth & Hum, Div Intramural Populat Hlth Res, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States. Additional authors for this research include D. Haynie, J. Bible, D.P. Liu and B. Simons-Morton.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2017.04.013. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Bethesda, Maryland, United States, North and Central America, Risk Management, National Institutes of Health.

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