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Step Up for STEM and Health Careers

NCT06445751 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2025-05-13

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Summary

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate "Step Up for STEM and Health Careers". The "Step Up for STEM and Health Careers" ("Step Up") game is an interactive, digital resource that includes the key elements of a bystander intervention for high school students to understand the importance of diversity in STEM; it also addresses skills, attitudes, and awareness to attain positive STEM identities and mitigate bias and harassment in STEM and health learning environments.

Participants in the intervention arm will be asked to complete the Step Up interactive game; participants in the comparison group will be asked to view a PowerPoint presentation on bias and harassment in STEM/health fields as the control experience. The Step Up game intervention and study outcomes are theory-based (Theory of Planned Behavior, Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)): we will assess the impact of Step Up on attitudes about STEM/health careers, STEM/health career self-efficacy, and bystander behavior.

Conditions

  • Adolescent Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Step Up for STEM and Health Careers ("Step Up") game

Step Up for STEM and Health Careers ("Step Up") game is an interactive, digital resource to help high school students understand the importance of diversity in STEM and health careers, attain STEM/health career self-efficacy, and help them create an inclusive learning environment for others.

BEHAVIORAL

Educational PowerPoint Presentation on Diversity in STEM Careers

An educational PowerPoint on Diversity in STEM careers to increase adolescents' STEM/health career self-efficacy, and help them create an inclusive learning environment for others.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Resilient Games Studio

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • University of Chicago

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Ohio State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tim Parsons · Resilient Games Studio

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-07-02
Primary Completion
2025-03-21
Completion
2025-03-21

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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