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: Device: smokeSCREEN video game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03722888

140103293_IV

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this sub-study is to learn more about how an educational videogame can feasibly be implemented and disseminated in youth programs.

Full description

The specific aims of this sub-study are:

Specific Aim #1: Work with game development team to develop a web-based version of smokeSCREEN.

Specific Aim # 2: Build a pre-post survey into the smokeSCREEN game to anonymously collect survey information on players' perspectives, beliefs, behaviors around smoking.

Specific Aim # 3: Collaborate with youth programs to pilot test the implementation of the new web-based version of smokeSCREEN into youth programs.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Include individuals who have smoked a cigarette previously (since we are evaluating the use of tobacco products in this study, we are including individuals who have previously smoked a cigarette)
• Willing to sit at a computer/tablet/smartphone and play a video game for 45-60 minutes and answer questions before and after playing the video game.
• Be enrolled in a youth program that we have a partnership with.

Exclusion criteria

• Does not fit the inclusion criteria.

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

adolescents who have previously smoked

Experimental group

Description:

Adolescents given a pre-post survey to measure the effect of the game and building that into the smokeSCREEN video game to anonymously collect information on players' perspectives, beliefs, behaviors around smoking, and collaborating with youth programs to pilot test how the game can be implemented in real world settings.

Treatment:

Device: smokeSCREEN video game