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

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

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Smoking
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: smokeSCREEN game

Detailed 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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 40
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Connecticut
    • Hamden, Connecticut, United States, 06517
      • Hamden Youth Center
    • New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06511
      • Yale New Haven Hospital
    • New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06511
      • Leadership, Education, and Athletics Partnership (LEAP) Inc.
    • New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06513
      • Farnam Neighborhood House

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 10 years to 16 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: smokeSCREEN game play; 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.

Behavioral: smokeSCREEN game; smokeSCREEN is web-based videogame intervention focused on tobacco use prevention in teens. The game has 1.5-2 hours of unique game play and focuses on combustible cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco products.smokeSCREEN. Guided by the social cognitive theory and the theory of planned behavior, smokeSCREEN addresses a range of challenges that teens often face involving peer pressure and the use of tobacco products. Participants are provided access to the smokeSCREEN game through a private, password-protected website link and instructed to complete the game.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Beliefs about smoking pre-test survey	Participants completed a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (Qualtrics Data Collection Software) and then played the videogame intervention. Fourteen questions were designed from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (2014)13 that focused on beliefs about cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco were used. For beliefs, questions had 4-5 choices ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree or definitely yes to definitely not, or 5 response choices ranging from very unlikely to very likely.	Baseline
Beliefs about smoking post-test survey	Participants completed a post-survey through a secured, data collection website (Qualtrics Data Collection Software), after they have played the videogame intervention. Fourteen questions were designed from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (2014)13 that focused on beliefs about cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco were used for the survey. For beliefs, questions had 4-5 choices ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree or definitely yes to definitely not, or 5 response choices ranging from very unlikely to very likely.	immediately after game play is completed
Knowledge about smoking pre-test survey	Participants completed a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (Qualtrics Data Collection Software), played the videogame intervention. Fourteen questions were designed from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (2014)13 that focused on knowledge about cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco were used for the surveys. For knowledge, questions had 3 response choices (yes, not, and not sure).	Baseline
Knowledge about smoking post-test survey.	Participants completed a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (Qualtrics Data Collection Software), played the videogame intervention, and then completed a post-survey using the same data collection website. Fourteen questions were designed from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (2014)13 that focused on knowledge about cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco were used for the survey. For knowledge, questions had 3 response choices (yes, not, and not sure).	immediately after game play is completed
Game experience satisfaction post-test survey	The post-test survey included an additional 5 items on game experience and satisfaction from items designed for a previous videogame study on sexual risk reduction in young adolescents (e.g., "I would tell my friends to play this game," 4 response choices, ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree).	immediately after game play is completed

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Yale University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Lynn E. Fiellin, MD, Yale University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 1, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): March 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 19, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 4, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): April 11, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 19, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 17, 2018
• Last Verified: October 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Marijuana Use
• Other Study ID Numbers: 1401013293

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO