Clinical trial NCT03965377: Developing an Injury Prevention Simulation Game to Better Engage Parents in Services -Home Safety Hero
Official title: Injuries Aren't Part of the Game: Developing an Injury Prevention Simulation Game to Better Engage Parents in Services
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parenting
Keywords: effectiveness of gaming technology
knowledge of childhood injury prevention
Lead sponsor: Penn State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-05-29
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 20
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: teen parents and parents to be will be randomly assigned to game play (4 vs 1) to assess the effectiveness of the computer game to decrease time to identifying home hazards, improve identification of resolutions of hazards, and time to identify home hazards under distraction conditions
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study will test the effectiveness of novel technology-based game to teach parents and parents to be home safety skills. These include the identification of home child injury risks under two conditions (with and without distraction) and how to resolve these risks to better protect preschool children from injuries. Few empirically validated home safety interventions exist and the best ones involve individual home visitors. These and others that use didactic instruction or provision of written material have poor response from low socioeconomic parents who are less literate and more resistant to outsiders entering their homes. The use of a computer game to provide education in this area is being tested for effectiveness and the game's engagement will also be examined.

Given cognitive problems in parents have been linked in the PI's work to child neglect (e.g., poor child supervision), links of performance on the game to cognitive capacities will also be examined in a preliminary way.

Detailed description: The study will compare a group of parents and parents to be who play the game multiple times (n=15) to a wait list group (n=15) who just play it once. The study will examine reaction times to identification and resolution of the risks overall and by category of risk (e.g., poisoning, burns, suffocation, etc.). The study will also examine failures on levels of the game which are graded for difficulty. The game was designed for low failure rate to increase engagement and to improve motivation.

Changes in the participants' perception of efficacy in preventing injuries to children and their engagement with the game (using a standardized usability survey) will be examined. The study will also examine the role of experience with the use of technology and cognitive capacities in relation to performance and pre-post changes with multiple plays of the game.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:participants who are parents or parents to be from a high school program in Altoona, PA. For those less than age 18, parental permission for participation is required

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Exclusion Criteria: non-English Speaking; ones whose due date falls in the study period and who are not likely to complete the project.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Learning
timeFrame: one week (four plays of the game) The outcomes average seconds until identification will be examined across the four game plays and also can be examined for each of four plays of the game.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: :Perception of efficacy in preventing childhood injuries: PARENT SENSE OF INJURY COMPETENCE SCALE
timeFrame: pre and one week later This outcome will be measured using PARENT SENSE OF INJURY COMPETENCE SCALE. This instrument has 16 items that are rated on a 1-6 scale with 6 indicating greater efficacy. The items are totaled for overall efficacy perception.
measure: Engagement in the game
timeFrame: This instrument is collected one time at post test once they have completed game play. The time frame is one week after entering the study.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: University Park
country: United States
facility: Sandra T. Azar
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: Penn State University
name: Sandra T Azar, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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