Implementation and Dissemination of an Evidence-Based Tobacco Product Use Prevention Videogame Intervention With Adolescents

To examine the effects on participants who play the smokeSCREEN game in that the game will have positive changes in their attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, intentions, behaviors and other outcomes related to smoking and tobacco products.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Smoking; Smoking Cessation
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: smokeSCREEN web-based game

Detailed Description

For this project, the CVS Pharmacy Health Foundation has identified after-school, school, and youth programs nationwide with whom to partner. For this project, the play2PREVENT Lab will provide these programs access to the tobacco use reduction/prevention game that the lab has created (smokeSCREEN). Program and school staff will enroll participants between the ages of 10-16 to play smokeSCREEN during their after school, school, and youth program. Before and after gameplay, participants will answer assessment questions related to their attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, intentions, and behaviors around smoking and tobacco product use. The data will be transmitted electronically via the LimeSurvey data collection platform to the Lab, for further analysis. None of the Lab staff will have contact with participants or after-school/school/youth program coordinators or staff.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 560
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Connecticut
    • New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06519
      • play2PREVENT Lab at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 10 years to 16 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Anyone with a userID and password.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Does not fit the inclusion criteria

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: adolescents between ages of 10-16; Adolescents given a pre-post survey to measure the effect of the game and building that into the smokeSCREEN video game to anonymously collect information on players' perspectives, beliefs, attitudes, intentions, social norms, and behaviors around tobacco use, and collaborating with youth programs to pilot test how the game can be implemented in real world settings.

Device: smokeSCREEN web-based game; smokeSCREEN tobacco use reduction/prevention web-based game. The game has 1.5-2 hours of unique game play and focuses on combustible cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco products. 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
Changes in beliefs	Participants completed a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey 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 responses ranging from unlikely to very likely.	baseline
Changes in beliefs	Participants completed a post-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey 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 responses ranging from unlikely to very likely.	immediately after game play is completed
Change in knowledge	Participants completed a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey 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
Change in knowledge	Participants completed a post-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey 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).	immediately after game play is completed
Change in intentions	Participants will complete a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), immediately before playing the videogame intervention. Survey questions, adapted from the National Youth and Tobacco Use Survey (FDA, 2018), will assess participants' intention of using cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco. For questions assessing participants' intention of using tobacco products, response options range from definitely not to definitely yes (4 choices).	Baseline
Change in behaviors	Participants will complete a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), immediately before playing the videogame intervention. Survey questions, adapted from the National Youth and Tobacco Use Survey (FDA, 2018), will assess participants' intention of using cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco. For questions assessing participants' intention of using tobacco products, response options range from definitely not to definitely yes (4 choices).	Immediately after gameplay is completed
Changes in social norms	Participants will complete a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), immediately before playing the videogame intervention. Survey questions, adapted from the National Youth and Tobacco Use Survey (FDA, 2018), will assess participants' social norms surrounding the use of cigarettes, ecigarettes, and flavored tobacco. Questions assessing the number of friends/peers who use tobacco products will range from 0 to 4 (including an "I don't know" option). Questions, such as "How would your best friends act toward you if you smoked cigarettes," have response options ranging from very unfriendly to very friendly (4 choices).	Baseline
Changes in social norms	Participants will complete a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), immediately before playing the videogame intervention. Survey questions, adapted from the National Youth and Tobacco Use Survey (FDA, 2018), will assess participants' social norms surrounding the use of cigarettes, ecigarettes, and flavored tobacco. Questions assessing the number of friends/peers who use tobacco products will range from 0 to 4 (including an "I don't know" option). Questions, such as "How would your best friends act toward you if you smoked cigarettes," have response options ranging from very unfriendly to very friendly (4 choices).	Immediately after gameplay is completed

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Gameplay satisfaction: post-test survey	The post-test survey, administered through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), will include an additional 10 items on the game intervention experience and satisfaction from items designed for a previous videogame study on sexual risk reduction in young adolescents; 4 response choices ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree.	immediately after game play is completed

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Yale University
• Investigators: Study Director: Lynn Fiellin, MD, Yale University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 1, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 11, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 23, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): January 24, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 22, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 21, 2022
• Last Verified: April 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: smoking; tobacco; e-cigarettes; flavored tobacco
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2000023070

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No