Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Children receiving visibility aids are not more likely to wear visibility aids than children not receiving them
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Multi-centre
Trial setting
Other
Trial type
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Public Health: visibility aids
Intervention
The trial compared visibility aids given to children versus no visibility aids. Children in classes in the intervention arm received a reflective and fluorescent slap wrap (a 30 cm x 3 cm x 0.3 cm item that can be worn around an upper arm or trouser leg and is readily removed), a reflective durable sticker (3 cm x 3 cm x 0.3 cm), a Department for Transport road safety educational booklet which included a section on the need to be seen in the dark and two posters. Letters were sent to parents informing them about the visibility aids and the importance of wearing them. Children in the control arm did not receive visibility aids and the additional material until the trial was complete.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Number of children wearing visibility aids
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/08/2004
Overall trial end date
31/05/2005
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Primary school children
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Child
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
20 classes of primary school children, a total of 377 children
Participant exclusion criteria
Does not match inclusion criteria
Recruitment start date
01/08/2004
Recruitment end date
31/05/2005
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Division of Primary Care
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
Broxtowe and Hucknall Primary Care Trust (UK) - an "own account" trial, funded via the NHS R&D Support Funding stream
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2006 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16537347
Publication citations
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Results
Mulvaney CA, Kendrick D, Watson MC, Coupland CA, Increasing child pedestrian and cyclist visibility: cluster randomised controlled trial., J Epidemiol Community Health, 2006, 60, 4, 311-315, doi: 10.1136/jech.2005.038216.