Digital Health Game as an Intervention Supporting Tobacco-related Health Literacy in Early Adolescents

University of Turku

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking Prevention

Treatments: Behavioral: Health game; Behavioral: Web page

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02717910

NTSF2016

Details and patient eligibility

About

This feasibility study evaluates acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a digital health game as an intervention supporting tobacco-related health literacy in 10- to 13-year-old early adolescents. One third of the study participants will receive the health game, on third a web page with similar content and one third will act as a control group without intervention.

Enrollment: 151 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 13 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Goes to school at 4th, 5th or 6th grade
• Understands and can communicate either in Finnish, Swedish or English
• Has daily access to either a smart phone or tablet computer during free time

Exclusion criteria

• Takes part to specialized education

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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151 participants in 3 patient groups

Health game group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm will receive the health game intervention including both 20 minutes guided training session at school and 2 weeks free usage of the health game during free time.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health game

Web page group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Participants in this arm will receive the web page intervention including both 20 minutes guided training session at school and 2 weeks free usage of the web page during free time.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Web page

Group with no intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants in this arm will receive no intervention.