Texting/Emailing While Driving Among High School Students in 35 States, United States, 2015

Li, Li; Shults, Ruth A.; Andridge, Rebecca; Yellman, Merissa A.; Xiang, Henry; Zhu, Motao

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.06.010

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“…Average TWD prevalence of 38% as reported by Li et al [10] among high school students is reasonably consistent with other reports of prevalence among adolescent and adults [5,7] and high enough to be considered normative behavior. Handheld phone use is legally restricted in nearly all states [11], although policies and enforcement vary and effects are largely unknown.…”

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“…Therefore, the prevalence of TWD is particularly high among young drivers, whose crash risk in general is higher than other age groups owing to inexperience, young age, risk taking, and other factors [9]. In this issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, Li et al examined the prevalence of TWD reported by over 100,000 high school students in 36 states in the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey [10]. Not surprisingly, TWD prevalence was greater among adolescents who also reported engaging in other risky behaviors, such as driving while intoxicated and seat belt non use.…”

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“…A similar categorization was consistent with a previously published study using YRBSs data on texting/emailing while driving. 35 The state status of handheld calling bans and young driver bans were classified as 1) the absence of a handheld calling ban and a young driver ban (no ban); 2) the absence of a handheld calling ban but an enacted young driver ban (young driver ban); and 3) the enactment of both a handheld calling ban and a young driver ban (concurrent bans). No YBRSs participating state had an enacted handheld calling ban but an absence of a young driver ban during the study period.…”

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“…Previous studies have reported that teen driver cellphone use, varies by age, sex, race/ethnicity, and urban/rural status. 23,27,[35][36][37] For our study, urban/rural status was presented by the proportion of state's public school districts that were in rural areas, which was calculated by dividing the number of public school districts in rural areas by the total number of public school districts in that states. We categorized the district proportion into three groups by approximately equal tertiles (17%-50%; 51%-78%; 79%-90%).…”

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Cellphone laws and teens’ calling while driving: analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys in 2013, 2015, and 2017

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Background Distracted driving among teen is a public health and safety concern. Most states in the U.S. have sought to restrict cellphone use while driving by enacting laws. This study aims to examine the difference in prevalence of self-reported calling while driving (CWD) between states with different types of cellphone bans. Methods Demographics and CWD data were extracted from state Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) from 14 states in 2013, 2015 and 2017. The state YRBS is conducted every two years with a representative sample of 9th through 12th grade students attending public school. States were grouped by type of enacted cellphone law(s): concurrent bans (concurrently enacted handheld calling ban and young driver ban); young driver ban (no handheld calling and enacted young driver ban only); and no ban (no handheld calling and no young driver ban). Poisson regression models with robust variance were used to estimate prevalence ratios comparing CWD prevalence across cellphone laws. Results In total, 109,069 high school students participated in the surveys, and 56, 492 (56%) participants reached the minimum learner’s permit age for their states and drove during the 30 days before the survey. Approximately 46% of participants reported CWD at least once during the previous 30 days and the percentages varied widely across states (range: 29%-62%). Compared to students from states with no ban enacted, those from states with concurrent bans were 14% less likely to engage in CWD (95% CI: 3%-23%). Students in states with concurrent bans were 15% less likely to engage in CWD compared to students in states with young driver bans (95% CI:7%-21%). Young driver bans were not associated with a decrease of CWD. Conclusions Engaging in CWD is common among teen drivers. The concurrent implementation of a handheld calling ban and a young driver ban was associated with a decrease of CWD. States without a handheld calling ban are encouraged to implement such law to reduce teen drivers engaging in cellular-based distraction behind the wheel.

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“…Of note, texting while driving was the one transportation risk behavior that did not differ by academic achievement. One potential explanation is that although adolescents understand that texting while driving is unsafe, the perceived benefits of texting while driving and the motivations for engaging in the behavior often differ from other transportation risk behaviors and can outweigh the perceived risks for adolescents at the moment when they choose to do it (8,9).…”

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Transportation Risk Behaviors Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019

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Motor-vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death and nonfatal injury among U.S. adolescents, resulting in approximately 2,500 deaths and 300,000 nonfatal injuries each year. Risk for motor-vehicle crashes and resulting injuries and deaths varies, depending on such behaviors as seat belt use or impaired or distracted driving. Improved understanding of adolescents' transportation risk behaviors can guide prevention efforts. Therefore, data from the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey were analyzed to determine prevalence of transportation risk behaviors, including not always wearing a seat belt, riding with a driver who had been drinking alcohol (riding with a drinking driver), driving after drinking alcohol, and texting or e-mailing while driving. Differences by student characteristics (age, sex, race/ethnicity, academic grades in school, and sexual identity) were calculated. Multivariable analyses controlling for student characteristics examined associations between risk behaviors. Approximately 43.1% of U.S. high school students did not always wear a seat belt and 16.7% rode with a drinking driver during the 30 days before the survey. Approximately 59.9% of students had driven a car during the 30 days before the survey. Among students who drove, 5.4% had driven after drinking alcohol and 39.0% had texted or e-mailed while driving. Prevalence of not always wearing a seat belt was higher among students who were younger, black, or had lower grades. Riding with a drinking driver was higher among Hispanic students or students with lower grades. Driving after drinking alcohol was higher among students who were older, male, Hispanic, or had lower grades. Texting while driving was higher among older students or white students. Few differences existed by sexual identity. Multivariable analyses revealed that students engaging in one transportation risk behavior were more likely to engage in other transportation risk behaviors. Traffic safety and public health professionals can use these findings to reduce transportation risk behaviors by selecting, implementing, and contextualizing the most appropriate and effective strategies for specific populations and for the environment.

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Texting/Emailing While Driving Among High School Students in 35 States, United States, 2015

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