Intervention modalities to address relevant psychosocial predictors of driving behaviour among adolescents: primary report

The goal of this report is to: (a) identify psychosocial targets of safe driving behaviour; (b) consider relevant population-based modalities to address these psychosocial targets; (c) create an intervention map that examines the utility of each identified psychosocial target as it might be delivered within each communications modality; and (d) present a rationale and description of an internet-based driver safety program that could be developed for pre-drivers and novice drivers. On the basis of our analyses, we strongly recommend a specific focus on subjective norms, affective beliefs, personality, identity and task difficulty factors in driver safety programming. We consider the most promising intervention modality to be interactive computer strategies. In the last section of the report we present a rationale and description of an internet-based driver safety program that could be developed for pre-drivers and novice drivers. This communications modality shows promise as a potentially high reach, high efficacy, low-cost intervention.