An Escape Room Intervention to Help Improve Breast Cancer Patients' Ability to Navigate Online Access to Nutrition Information

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (FHCC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anatomic Stage III Breast Cancer AJCC v8; Anatomic Stage II Breast Cancer AJCC v8; Anatomic Stage I Breast Cancer AJCC v8

Treatments: Other: Educational Intervention; Other: Interview; Other: Telemedicine; Other: Survey Administration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06193070

20282

NCI-2023-08424 (Registry Identifier)

P30CA015704 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

RG1123830 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This clinical trial evaluates an educational escape room intervention for improving awareness of and concern about breast cancer misinformation and reducing vulnerability to believing cancer misinformation among patients with stage I-III breast cancer. Misinformation, or communication about health information that is inaccurate or false, can have serious health consequences for those that believe it. The rise of the access to and use of various sources of information on the internet such as websites and social media has caused the spread of misinformation and disinformation to grow rapidly, resulting in negative consequences on health outcomes. Cancer misinformation, in particular, has become an increasingly prevalent issue that poses a real threat to the many cancer patients in the United States. The educational escape room intervention is a game designed to teach participants how to discern whether cancer nutrition information is accurate or may potentially be misinformation. Participants are immersed in the narrative while solving puzzles to learn key themes such as the need to talk to their doctors, looking for scientific studies, as well as avoiding fads and trends, miracle cures, anecdotal evidence, and targeted and clickbait ads.

Full description

OUTLINE:

Patients complete a baseline before playing the virtual cancer nutrition information escape room game. Patients then play the virtual misinformation escape room game consisting of 5 puzzles and a final task over 30-45 minutes on study. Following the escape room game, patients complete a post-game survey and debrief interview (15 minutes).

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18 years of age or older
• English speaking
• Able to provide informed consent
• Have access to a computer (desktop or laptop)
• Have been previously diagnosed with breast cancer (Stages I-III) and currently in active treatment for breast cancer

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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45 participants in 1 patient group

Supportive Care (escape room game)

Experimental group

Description:

Patients play the virtual misinformation escape room game consisting of 5 puzzles and a final task over 30-45 minutes on study.

Treatment:

Other: Survey Administration

Other: Telemedicine

Other: Interview

Other: Educational Intervention