Game to Improve Hearing Health Care Outcomes

NCT02946567 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: Pz-A105aR44DC013114
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 159
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The investigators are studying the educational potential of games, with the goal of developing a game to improve learning and promote healthy hearing behaviors. The project is looking for adolescents and young adults that play games to share their experience and learning from playing games. The investigators ask participants to fill out an enrollment form/informed consent, complete surveys on healthy hearing habits, and play a game provided by the project. This projects aims the development and evaluation of a game to educate teenagers and young adults about noise-induced hearing loss, enhance knowledge about hearing, and promote healthy hearing behaviors with the potential to improve hearing health care.

Conditions

Focus of the Study is to Promote Healthy Hearing

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Knowledge, Attitudes, and Intended Behavior Questionnaire about hearing health care

  This instrument has been used to evaluate the effectiveness of past hearing loss prevention programs funded by the National Institute of Health. It contains questions on knowledge, attitudes, and intended behavior related to hearing health care. Although there are questions in different domains, the instrument consolidates the overall perception of participant on hearing health care.

  9 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Noisy City

EXPERIMENTAL

Participant will play the Noisy City game developed by this project.

Other: Noisy City information about hearing health care

Control

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

Participant will play a generic game.

Other: Generic Game

Interventions

Noisy City information about hearing health care OTHER

Participants will play the game Noisy City, which contains information about hearing health care.

Noisy City

Generic Game OTHER

Participants will play a generic game without any particular information about hearing health care.

Control

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 13 Years - 20 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Participants have to be between the ages of 13 and 20 years of age (either gender).
• Participants who are between the ages of 13 and 17 years of age must have a willing and able parent or legal guardian who permits them to participate.
• Participants must have Internet access, an email address (or be able to use parent's/legal guardian's email address), and agree to play a game (random assignment to a group with a different game).

You may not qualify if:

• Participants will be excluded if they are cognitively impaired, have any serious medical problem that may interfere with their ability to engage with the online game.
• Those who are not able to read/follow written instructions and individuals with an excessive addiction to games will be excluded.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Photozig, Inc.: lead
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Photozig, Inc.

Moffett Field, California, 94035-0128, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Bruno Kajiyama, MS

  Photozig, Inc.

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: INDUSTRY
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: CEO

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 24, 2016
• First Posted: October 27, 2016
• Study Start: September 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2017
• Study Completion: March 1, 2017
• Last Updated: October 5, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-10

Locations

US (1)