Development and Evaluation of Hygie, a New Serious Game for Continuing Medical Education of General Practitioners

Development and Evaluation of Hygie, a New Serious Game for Continuing Medical Education of General Practitioners: a Randomized Trial

We produced a prototype video game called Hygie on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva). We then carried out a randomized trial comparing the learning provided by a week of access to the game versus source articles, in a population of clinical supervisors (CS) from 13 French departments of general practice.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: Hygie; Device: Source articles

Detailed Description

Continuing medical education is important but burdensome work for general practitioners. Current training tools have limitations and may lack the ability to engage some practitioners. Serious games are new pedagogical tools that use video games as engaging education tools. They have significant advantages in terms of efficiency and dissemination.

The aim of this work was to create a new serious game and to evaluate it in terms of efficiency and satisfaction, comparing it with a traditional method of continuing education: article reading.

We produced a prototype video game called Hygie on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva). We then carried out a randomized trial comparing the learning provided by a week of access to the game versus source articles, in a population of clinical supervisors (CS) from 14 French departments of general practice.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 3398
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Paris, France, 75018
    • Paris diderot University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• to be a french general practice clinical supervisor

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Quadruple

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Hygie game; Prototype video game called Hygie on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva).	Device: Hygie; Prototype video game called Hygie, accessible on the Internet, on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva).
Active Comparator: Source articles; 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva)	Device: Source articles; 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva), about the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice, accessible on the Internet.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge test	Mean score at a final knowledge test	completed 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention, i.e. 4 to 6 weeks after randomization
Delta knowledge	Mean difference score between knowledge pretest and final knowledge test (posttest	pretest before randomization, posttest 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention (i.e. 4 to 6 weeks after randomization)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Satisfaction	Satisfaction survey completed at the end of the intervention access week	one week after randomization (end of access to support)
Playing time	Time spended playing by subjects assigned to Hygie	during the first week of access to support of intervention
Use in practice	completed 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention, participants answer the question "In the course of your practice, did you use the knowledge you learned through the teaching material?"	completed 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention, i.e. 4 to 6 weeks after randomization

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hygie

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Jaunay LB, Zerr P, Peguin L, Renouard L, Ivanoff AS, Picard H, Griffith J, Chassany O, Duracinsky M. Development and Evaluation of a New Serious Game for Continuing Medical Education of General Practitioners (Hygie): Double-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2019 Nov 20;21(11):e12669. doi: 10.2196/12669.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 31, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 6, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): September 6, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 27, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 27, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): April 3, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 10, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 8, 2018
• Last Verified: April 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: GENERAL PRACTICE; SERIOUS GAME; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; PEDAGOGY
• Other Study ID Numbers: Hygie1

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Yes
• IPD Plan Description: all collected IPD
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: if asked
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: requests will be considered individually
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: Study Protocol; Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP); Informed Consent Form (ICF); Clinical Study Report (CSR); Analytic Code

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No