Gastrointestinal Endoscopist Warm-up Activity With Recreational Media (GET WARM)

June 13, 2026 updated by: William Shanahan

Gastrointestinal Endoscopist Warm-up Activity With Recreational Media: A Randomised Pilot Crossover Trial

This study aims to assess the potential benefits of a brief video game intervention prior to a simulated endoscopy assessment on a phantom model by gastroenterology and general surgical clinicians.

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

15

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Gastroenterology or general surgical clinician at University Hospital Galway.
  • Minimum of 50 gastroscopies performed in career to date.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Performed endoscopy on the day of study prior to assessment.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention
Video game warm-up prior to endoscopy simulator assessment.
Behavioral: Video game warm-up.
Participants will either rest or perform a 5-minute video game session of StarFox Zero (Nintendo) using the Wii-U (Nintendo) immediately prior to a simulated endoscopy assessment. The optimal pre-procedure warm-up duration is not known. Short interventions appear to be effective in athletic performance, and have been used in other procedural studies evaluating warm-up benefit. The intervention and assessment are expected to take ≤20 minutes per time point.
Other Names:
  • Preconditioning
No Intervention: Control
No warm-up prior to assessment on endoscopy simulator.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Tool handling
Time Frame: This will be measured at index assessment and at follow up assessment 1 week later.
Time to retrieve suture in gastric body
This will be measured at index assessment and at follow up assessment 1 week later.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Tool handling
Time Frame: This will be measured at index assessment and at follow up assessment 1 week later.
Time to retrieve bead in gastric body
This will be measured at index assessment and at follow up assessment 1 week later.
Time to D2
Time Frame: This will be measured at index assessment and at follow up assessment 1 week later.
Time to progress scope to second part of duodenum
This will be measured at index assessment and at follow up assessment 1 week later.
Tip control
Time Frame: This will be measured at index assessment and at follow up assessment 1 week later.
Image capture performance. The centrality of ampulla on image captured by endoscopist with endoscope will be assessed using ImageJ. The greater the central tendency the better the performance.
This will be measured at index assessment and at follow up assessment 1 week later.
Task difficulty
Time Frame: This will be measured at index assessment and at follow up assessment 1 week later.
Complete Endoscopy Task Load Index. The is a refinement of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) but comprises only three questions as opposed to eight. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2014/892476)
This will be measured at index assessment and at follow up assessment 1 week later.

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

William Shanahan

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

May 27, 2026

Primary Completion (Estimated)

August 6, 2026

Study Completion (Estimated)

November 1, 2026

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 22, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 13, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

June 16, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 16, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 13, 2026

Last Verified

June 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CA 3624

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

IPD Plan Description

GDPR limitations.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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