Promoting Early Adolescent Non-smoking With a Game Intervention Supporting Self-efficacy

University of Turku

Status: Completed

Conditions: Self Efficacy; Smoking

Treatments: Behavioral: Game intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05290103

PEANS2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

This intervention study evaluates the effectiveness of a digital game intervention supporting smoking refusal self-efficacy among early adolescents (10-13 y). The participants are randomly allocated to two groups: the experimental group that receives the digital game intervention, and the control group that receives no intervention.

Enrollment: 781 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 13 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Goes to school at 4th, 5th, or 6th grade
• Sufficient skills in Finnish or Swedish

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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781 participants in 2 patient groups

Game intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm will receive the game intervention including 15-30 minutes of digital health game playing at school and 2 weeks of free usage of the game during free time and a 30-minute debriefing session with a researcher.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Game intervention

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants in this arm will receive no intervention.