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Prognosis--A Game-Based Intervention to Improve STEM Skills

NCT03416218 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 31

Last updated 2024-08-12

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a game-based intervention (Prognosis) designed to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills among high school-aged students.

Conditions

  • Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Prognosis

Prognosis will be a single-player 2D, digital simulation game and supporting multimedia website. Players are situated as a major official of Hexacago, and tasks them with managing the city's finances, education levels, and health concerns to lower rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. In the game Prognosis, player dispatches professionals from a variety of fields to different neighborhoods around the city, observing the effects of their resource allocation decisions across multiple systems over many in-game months. The supporting multimedia website will house curriculum and learning tools to support the learning objectives of Prognosis.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Melissa Gilliam, MD, MPH · University of Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-02-05
Primary Completion
2019-12-31
Completion
2019-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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