Featured Article: Evaluating Smartphone-Based Virtual Reality to Improve Chinese Schoolchildren’s Pedestrian Safety: A Nonrandomized Trial

Abstract

Pedestrian safety training via smartphone-based VR provides children the repeated practice needed to learn the complex skills required to cross streets safely, and also helps them improve self-efficacy to cross streets. Given rapid motorization and global smartphone penetration, plus epidemiological findings that about 75,000 children die annually worldwide in pedestrian crashes, smartphone-based VR could supplement existing policy and prevention efforts to improve global child pedestrian safety.