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Developing an Injury Prevention Simulation Game to Better Engage Parents in Services -Home Safety Hero

NCT ID: NCT03965377

Last Updated: 2021-12-08

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-02-06

Study Completion Date

2022-12-30

Brief Summary

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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

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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.

Conditions

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Parenting

Keywords

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effectiveness of gaming technology knowledge of childhood injury prevention

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

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 Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Home Safety Hero game play

Home Safety Hero is parental psychoeducational computer game to prevent childhood injuries

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Home Safety Hero Computer Game

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Home Safety Hero computer game presents players with virtual rooms in a home where vilians have planted safety risks. It involves the player taking the role of a body guard for a child. It has three phases: 1. Identifying risks in a set of rooms (e.g., burn, falling, suffocation, poisoning); 2. Identifying risks and then selecting a resolution to reduce the risk or eliminate it entirely; and 3. Identifying risk when faced with distractions typical to home environments (e.g., phone ringing, fire engine siren sounds, a moving child).

Interventions

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Home Safety Hero Computer Game

Home Safety Hero computer game presents players with virtual rooms in a home where vilians have planted safety risks. It involves the player taking the role of a body guard for a child. It has three phases: 1. Identifying risks in a set of rooms (e.g., burn, falling, suffocation, poisoning); 2. Identifying risks and then selecting a resolution to reduce the risk or eliminate it entirely; and 3. Identifying risk when faced with distractions typical to home environments (e.g., phone ringing, fire engine siren sounds, a moving child).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

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Minimum Eligible Age

12 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

20 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Penn State University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sandra Azar

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Sandra T Azar, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Penn State University

Locations

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Sandra T. Azar

University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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STUDY00008278

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id