Quit IT: Development of a Web-based, 3D Coping Skills Game to Increase Self-Efficacy for Maintaining Smoking Abstinence Following Hospitalization

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Use Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Evaluation Interview; Behavioral: Questionnaires; Other: web-based video game (Quit IT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01915836

11-043

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test a web-based video game to help cancer patients quit smoking. The investigators are interested in what participants like and do not like about the game.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Treated by the MSKCC Tobacco Cessation Program
• At least 30 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• Insufficient manual dexterity and vision to use a computer and mouse as per self-report
• Unstable medical or psychiatric condition as determined by the PI and Co-PI.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Alpha game testers and questionaires

Experimental group

Description:

This a video game designed to help smokers quit \& remain non-smokers. Before the start the game,the participant will fill out a brief questionnaire. It should take about 5 minutes to complete. Once this is done, the game play should last about 30 minutes \& will present with different scenes. These scenes will show situations that may trigger smoking urges such as walking into a room where another person is smoking. In the game, the participant will be able to use different ways of coping with urges to smoke such as taking several deep breaths or listening to music. The participant will be asked to talk aloud about what they think of the game. The participant will be video \&/or audio recorded while doing this. Once finished testing the game, we will then ask you a few questions about what you thought of the game. We will also ask you how relevant different situations are to you as a smoker or someone who is trying to avoid smoking. The entire visit is expected to last about 1.5 hours.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Evaluation Interview

Other: web-based video game (Quit IT)

Behavioral: Questionnaires