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Feedback and Financial Incentives for Reducing Cell Phone Use While Driving: A Randomized Clinical Trial | Public Health | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network  Question  Can behavioral interventions decrease handheld cell phone–based driver distraction?   17663 and ended up with 2020 participantsProgressive email--- already a select population Outcome-- Proportion of drive time engaged in handheld phone use in seconds per hour (s/h) of driving. Median baseline handheld phone use was 216 (IQR, 72-480) s/h.  Participants were randomly assigned to 1 of 6 trial arms for a 7-week intervention period: (1) control; (2) feedback, with weekly push notification about their handheld phone use compared with that of similar others; (3) standard incentive, with a maximum $50 award at the end of the intervention based on how their handheld phone use compared with similar others; (4) standard incentive plus feedback, combining interventions of arms 2 and 3; (5) reframed incentive plus feedback, with a maximum $7.15 award each w