Development of a Videogame Prototype Targeting Cigarette and Marijuana Smoking, and Tobacco Product Prevention Among Young Adolescents (smokeSCREEN)

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking

Treatments: Behavioral: smokeSCREEN game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03107936

1401013293

Details and patient eligibility

About

To study feasibility and implementation of a education videogame and the effects on adolescents knowledge and beliefs around tobacco products.

Full description

The goal for sub-study 4 is to learn more about how an educational videogame can feasibly be implemented and disseminated in youth programs. For this sub-study we will further develop, expand, and refine the smokeSCREEN game and increase the game's reach on a national platform. The study will conduct the proposed evaluation by: working with game developers to develop a web- based version of the game, creating a pre-post survey to measure the effect of the game and building that into the smokeSCREEN game to anonymously collect information on players' knowledge and beliefs around tobacco products, and collaborating with youth programs to pilot test how the game can be implemented in real world settings.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• must be able and willing to sit at a computer or mobile device for 45-60 minutes per session to play the game and answer questions before and after playing video game.
• be enrolled in a youth program that we have a partnership with

Exclusion criteria

• up to the discretion of the study team

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

smokeSCREEN game play

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are instructed to access the web-based videogame intervention, smokeSCREEN, through a secured website and play the game using their unique User ID and password.

Treatment:

Behavioral: smokeSCREEN game