Clinical trial NCT06193070: An Escape Room Intervention to Help Improve Breast Cancer Patients' Ability to Navigate Online Access to Nutrition Information
Official title: Escape Room: A Gamified Approach to Learning About Cancer Nutrition Information
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anatomic Stage I Breast Cancer AJCC v8
Anatomic Stage II Breast Cancer AJCC v8
Anatomic Stage III Breast Cancer AJCC v8
Lead sponsor: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2024-01-05
Enrollment: 45
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This clinical trial evaluates an educational escape room intervention for improving awareness of and concern about breast cancer misinformation and reducing vulnerability to believing cancer misinformation among patients with stage I-III breast cancer. Misinformation, or communication about health information that is inaccurate or false, can have serious health consequences for those that believe it. The rise of the access to and use of various sources of information on the internet such as websites and social media has caused the spread of misinformation and disinformation to grow rapidly, resulting in negative consequences on health outcomes. Cancer misinformation, in particular, has become an increasingly prevalent issue that poses a real threat to the many cancer patients in the United States. The educational escape room intervention is a game designed to teach participants how to discern whether cancer nutrition information is accurate or may potentially be misinformation. Participants are immersed in the narrative while solving puzzles to learn key themes such as the need to talk to their doctors, looking for scientific studies, as well as avoiding fads and trends, miracle cures, anecdotal evidence, and targeted and clickbait ads.

Detailed description: OUTLINE:

Patients complete a baseline before playing the virtual cancer nutrition information escape room game. Patients then play the virtual misinformation escape room game consisting of 5 puzzles and a final task over 30-45 minutes on study. Following the escape room game, patients complete a post-game survey and debrief interview (15 minutes).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 18 years of age or older
* English speaking
* Able to provide informed consent
* Have access to a computer (desktop or laptop)
* Have been previously diagnosed with breast cancer (Stages I-III) and currently in active treatment for breast cancer

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of Participants Accrued to the Study (Feasibility)
timeFrame: At enrollment
measure: Percentage of Patients Who Complete Game Sessions (Feasibility)
timeFrame: Up to 1 week
measure: Satisfaction (Acceptability)
timeFrame: Up to 1 week
measure: Likelihood to Recommend the Game to Someone Else (Acceptability)
timeFrame: Up to 1 week
measure: Usability (System Usability Scale)
timeFrame: Up to 1 week
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Types of Online Information
timeFrame: At baseline
measure: Concern About Misinformation and Confidence in Identifying Misinformation
timeFrame: Up to 1 week
measure: Cancer Nutrition Information Beliefs
timeFrame: At baseline and up to 1 week
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Seattle
country: United States
facility: Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
state: Washington
Study officials:
affiliation: Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
name: Megan Shen
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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