Shared and distinct parental influences on teen impaired driving in rural and suburban contexts: A mixed methods study of young drivers

Deepa R Camenga; Kaigang Li; Barbara C Banz; Vanessa Zuniga; Ronald J Iannotti; Candice Grayton; Denise L Haynie; Bruce G Simons-Morton; Leslie Curry; Federico E Vaca

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2023.107330

Shared and distinct parental influences on teen impaired driving in rural and suburban contexts: A mixed methods study of young drivers

Accid Anal Prev. 2023 Dec:193:107330. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107330. Epub 2023 Oct 1.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT, USA; Yale Developmental Neurocognitive Driving Simulation Research Center (DrivSim Lab), 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Yale Developmental Neurocognitive Driving Simulation Research Center (DrivSim Lab), 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Health & Exercise Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Colorado School of Public Health, Fort Collins, CO, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT, USA; Yale Developmental Neurocognitive Driving Simulation Research Center (DrivSim Lab), 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT, USA; Yale Developmental Neurocognitive Driving Simulation Research Center (DrivSim Lab), 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁵ The CDM Group, Inc., Chevy Chase, MD, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁶ The CDM Group, Inc., Chevy Chase, MD, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁷ Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁸ Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁹ Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
¹⁰ Yale Developmental Neurocognitive Driving Simulation Research Center (DrivSim Lab), 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

Objective: To explore shared and distinct parental influences on rural and suburban adolescents' riding with an impaired driver (RWI) and driving while impaired (DWI) behaviors during high school.

Methods: Participants in the NEXT Generation Health Study (NEXT) were classified into four RWI/DWI trajectory classes (i.e., Abstainer, Escalator, Decliner, Persister) which described patterns of RWI/DWI from high school to emerging adulthood. A follow-up, in-depth, qualitative interview was conducted with a purposeful selection of participants from each trajectory class between March and September 2020. Guided by Ecodevelopmental Theory, the interview included questions which explored parent-teen influences on driving and RWI/DWI.

Results: Imposition of a curfew was a shared parental influence in rural and suburban contexts. Unique to the rural context, parent modeling of RWI/DWI was described as normative and occurring since childhood.

Conclusions: Prevention interventions targeting parent RWI/DWI may reduce their children's risk for RWI/DWI among rural adolescents.

Keywords: Impaired driving; Parental influences; Rural; Youth.

MeSH terms

Accidents, Traffic / prevention & control
Adolescent
Adult
Alcohol Drinking
Automobile Driving*
Child
Humans
Parents
Schools

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