Acceptability of Video Games to Promote Asthma Education and Self-management in Children

NCT ID: NCT03613675

Last Updated: 2022-10-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 5 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-01-15
• Study Completion Date: 2019-03-10

Brief Summary

Asthma is a chronic lung disease affecting over 800,000 Canadian children. Knowing how to avoid asthma triggers, to take care of one's health, and to know when and why to do one's treatment can help prevent asthma crises, and have a better quality of life.

Games in health can make the management of asthma easier by helping the child better understand his condition, his triggers, and manage his asthma by himself. Games also offer a personalized experience, where players can receive feedback about their learning. However, few studies explored the use of games in childhood asthma.

This study will test 4 games for children with asthma. Through different characters and scenarios, the goals of the games are to help the child with asthma to better recognize and manage his asthma triggers and symptoms. The objectives of this study are:

• Evaluate the acceptability of these games in children with asthma
• Gather feedback on the games to guide future development

Conditions

Asthma

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: DEVICE_FEASIBILITY
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Video games

All participants will be asked to play 4 video games.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Video games

Intervention Type: DEVICE

The 4 videos games consists of:

• Asthmonaut, a desktop game in which the child navigates through different scenarios and interacts with nine characters to learn about asthma symptoms and management (30 minutes)
• Lung Launcher, a mobile game in which the character encounters different asthma triggers (customizable to the child) and the child has to find the correct preventive method to address each trigger (4 minutes)
• Asthma Heroes, a desktop game where the player interacts with several characters to learn about their symptoms, treatment and context, and collects objects to help them manage their asthma (30 minutes)
• Bloïd, a mobile game where the player uses a pressure sensor as an input device to guide a spacecraft and destroy meteorites in its path (4 minutes).

Interventions

Video games

The 4 videos games consists of:

• Asthmonaut, a desktop game in which the child navigates through different scenarios and interacts with nine characters to learn about asthma symptoms and management (30 minutes)
• Lung Launcher, a mobile game in which the character encounters different asthma triggers (customizable to the child) and the child has to find the correct preventive method to address each trigger (4 minutes)
• Asthma Heroes, a desktop game where the player interacts with several characters to learn about their symptoms, treatment and context, and collects objects to help them manage their asthma (30 minutes)
• Bloïd, a mobile game where the player uses a pressure sensor as an input device to guide a spacecraft and destroy meteorites in its path (4 minutes).

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• aged 8-12 years inclusively
• with physician-diagnosed asthma
• who are on a daily controller medication
• who understand French or English.

Exclusion Criteria

• chronic respiratory conditions other than asthma
• cardiovascular diseases
• neuromuscular disorders
• developmental delay.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Concordia University, Montreal

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

St. Justine's Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sze Man Tse

Assistant professor, pediatric respirologist

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

CHU Sainte-Justine

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Countries

Canada

Other Identifiers

2019-2075

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id