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Sensor Network with Active Instructional Content to Prevent Child Safety Seat Misuse

Award Number: R44HD100278
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2020
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2023

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Sensor Network with Active Instructional Content to Prevent Child Safety Seat Misuse - Project Summary/Abstract Minnesota HealthSolutions (MHS) proposes to develop an innovative child safety seat user engagement system that aims to actively educate, instruct and alarm caregivers with the goal of preventing critical child safety seat misuses and injuries to children riding in motor vehicles. Key enabling technologies make the proposed system technically feasible at this time. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of unintentional morbidity and mortality in American children. In the past ten years, thousands of children have died in unintentional crashes and millions more had hospital-treated injuries. Properly utilized child safety seats are the most effective way to protect young children involved in crashes from serious injury or death and the vast majority of children are seated in child safety seats. However, several large studies have observed that only 10% to 20% of children are correctly harnessed into correctly installed seats. Improper use of child restraints substantially reduces their effectiveness and is a major public health concern. Better systems are needed to improve the rate of proper child safety seat use. We hypothesize that the proposed child safety seat user engagement system will significantly improve the rate of proper child safety seat usage and reduce vehicle crash-related child injuries and deaths. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has been assembled to define, build, and evaluate feasibility- and production- prototype systems in phase I and phase II, respectively. The phase II production-prototype development will be completed in a rigorous quality-controlled design and testing process to ensure a safe and effective product is produced.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2024	2021	MINNESOTA HEALTHSOLUTIONS CORPORATION	861 E HENNEPIN AVE	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	55414	HENNEPIN	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	3	2/27/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $731,928 )
2021	2021	MINNESOTA HEALTHSOLUTIONS CORPORATION	861 E HENNEPIN AVE STE 440	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	55414	HENNEPIN	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	3	8/30/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$731,928
2021	2019	MINNESOTA HEALTHSOLUTIONS CORPORATION	861 E HENNEPIN AVE STE 440	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	55414	HENNEPIN	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	11/3/2020	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $731,928

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $745,409 )
2020	2020	MINNESOTA HEALTHSOLUTIONS CORPORATION	861 E HENNEPIN AVE STE 440	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	55414	HENNEPIN	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	2	8/28/2020	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$745,409
2020	2019	MINNESOTA HEALTHSOLUTIONS CORPORATION	861 E HENNEPIN AVE STE 440	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	55414	HENNEPIN	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	11/14/2019	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $745,409

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $224,939 )
2019	2019	MINNESOTA HEALTHSOLUTIONS CORPORATION	861 E HENNEPIN AVE STE 440	MINNEAPOLIS	MN	55414	HENNEPIN	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	8/22/2019	NEW	$224,939
														Subtotal = $224,939

Grand Total All Awards = $1,702,276

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Sensor Network with Active Instructional Content to Prevent Child Safety Seat Misuse

Award Number: R44HD100278

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2020

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2023

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