Development and Evaluation of Hygie, a New Serious Game for Continuing Medical Education of General Practitioners

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

3398 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-05-31

Study Completion Date

2017-09-06

Brief Summary

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We produced a prototype video game called Hygie on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva). We then carried out a randomized trial comparing the learning provided by a week of access to the game versus source articles, in a population of clinical supervisors (CS) from 13 French departments of general practice.

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Detailed Description

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Continuing medical education is important but burdensome work for general practitioners. Current training tools have limitations and may lack the ability to engage some practitioners. Serious games are new pedagogical tools that use video games as engaging education tools. They have significant advantages in terms of efficiency and dissemination.

The aim of this work was to create a new serious game and to evaluate it in terms of efficiency and satisfaction, comparing it with a traditional method of continuing education: article reading.

We produced a prototype video game called Hygie on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva). We then carried out a randomized trial comparing the learning provided by a week of access to the game versus source articles, in a population of clinical supervisors (CS) from 14 French departments of general practice.

Conditions

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CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

randomized trial comparing the learning provided by a week of access to the game Hygie or source articles

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

QUADRUPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators Outcome Assessors

double-blinded randomized trial : Participants do not know their assignment group. The questionnaires, identical in both groups, were completed by the participants and blinded from their assignment group.

Study Groups

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Hygie game

Prototype video game called Hygie on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva).

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Hygie

Intervention Type DEVICE

Prototype video game called Hygie, accessible on the Internet, on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva).

Source articles

9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva)

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Source articles

Intervention Type DEVICE

9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva), about the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice, accessible on the Internet.

Interventions

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Hygie

Prototype video game called Hygie, accessible on the Internet, on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva).

Intervention Type DEVICE

Source articles

9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva), about the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice, accessible on the Internet.

Intervention Type DEVICE