Clinical trial NCT06402227: Effectiveness of Board Game on Improving Elementary School Students' Infection Control
Official title: Effectiveness of Board Game on Improving Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions of Infection Control for Senior Elementary School Students: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Knowledge of Infection Control
Attitude of Infection Control
Behavioral Intentions of Infection Control
Keywords: Gamification
Child
Communicable Diseases
Theory of Planned Behavior
Lead sponsor: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Science and Technology Council
First posted: 2024-05-07
Enrollment: 310
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 10
Maximum age (years): 13
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Intervention model description: The investigators randomly divided students' classes into the experimental group and the control group. The former received gamified instruction, while the latter received conventional lesson lecture. After a one-month delay, students in the control group were invited to participate in the board game.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if board game can improve elementary school students' infection control intentions. The investigators use the theory of planned behavior (TPB), which includes three main factors: attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Exploring the factors influencing children's behavioral intentions of infection control through theory of planned behavior?
2. The effectiveness of board game on improving children's knowledge and behavioral intentions of infection control?

Researchers will compare gamified instruction to conventional lesson lecture to see if the former has better results.

Students who participated in filled out the questionnaire three times, each time taking about 15 to 20 minutes: before the intervention, after the intervention, and after a one-month delay. The students' legal representatives filled out a basic demographic questionnaire before intervention, which took about 5 minutes.

After a one-month delay, two groups of students were asked to filled out the post-test questionnaire again. Then, students in the control group were invited to participate in a board game and asked which teaching method they preferred (gamified instruction or conventional lesson lecture).


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Students in fifth to sixth grade of the elementary school (10 to 13 years old) and their legal representatives must fill in the informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria:

* N/A

Primary outcomes:
measure: intention to infection control behavior
timeFrame: baseline, the day receiving the intervention, a one-month delay after the intervention.
measure: knowledge of infection control
timeFrame: baseline, the day receiving the intervention, a one-month delay after the intervention.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: National Yang Ming University
Study officials:
affiliation: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
name: HUEY-LAN HU, professor
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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