Motivating Survey Compliance: Game Play Study 1

NCT03738254 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 1708061907
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 232
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Self-reports, especially for patients with chronic physical or mental diseases, are critical for disease research and drug development. Historically, it has been very difficult to collect self-reported data for long periods of time as it is an unpleasant and inconvenient task. Paper and digital surveys are the traditional way of collecting self-reports and have been around for a long time, but still suffer from lack of adherence despite the best efforts of researchers to remind and motivate individuals to fill them out. Mobile games, on the other hand, benefit from an enormous amount of human adherence. These video games can be played on a smartphone and have captured the attention of a wide variety of demographics. The investigators have used established game design principles to develop a mobile game to motivate individuals to fill out a daily survey. The purpose of this study is to determine which method of survey administration (paper, digital survey, or game- motivated survey) leads to the highest adherence rates for daily surveys.

Conditions

Patient Reported Outcome Measures; Compliance

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Adherence Rates to various methods of daily survey administration

  For each study arm, the average adherence rate (computed as the percent of days (out of 35 total) a participant completed 100% of the daily survey questions, averaged over all participants in the study arm) will be computed and compared

  35 days

Study Arms (3)

Paper PRO

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants in the Paper PRO arm completed daily patient reported outcome diaries on paper

Other: Paper Survey

ePRO

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants in the ePRO arm completed daily patient reported outcome diaries online via a smartphone app.

Other: Electronic Survey

Game-Motivated ePRO

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants in the Game-Motivated ePRO arm completed daily patient reported outcome diaries online via a smartphone app. These participants were also given access to a game that rewarded the participant with an in-game reward that helped the participant complete various in-game quests.

Other: The Guardians: A smartphone game

Interventions

The Guardians: A smartphone game OTHER

"The Guardians" is a mix of two popular game genres: idle games (a game that doesn't require constant player input in order to progress in the game, but often progresses exponentially in response to a few user inputs, e.g., Cookie Clicker and Adventure Capitalist) and pet collection games (a game where the player seeks to collect all of the pets in a set, e.g., Pokemon or Neko Atsume). The game gives the player an in-game reward for completing a survey.

Game-Motivated ePRO

Paper Survey OTHER

Paper version of daily survey

Paper PRO

Electronic Survey OTHER

Electronic version of daily survey administered via a smartphone app.

ePRO

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 6 Years - 24 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Aged 6-24
• Own and use either an iPhone or Android smartphone
• Access to US Apple App Store or US GooglePlayStore

You may not qualify if:

• N/A

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: lead
• Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02142, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Taylor S, Ferguson C, Peng F, Schoeneich M, Picard RW. Use of In-Game Rewards to Motivate Daily Self-Report Compliance: Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2019 Jan 3;21(1):e11683. doi: 10.2196/11683.

  PMID: 30609986 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Patient Compliance

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Treatment Adherence and Compliance; Health Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Rosalind W Picard, ScD

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 7, 2018
• First Posted: November 13, 2018
• Study Start: October 9, 2017
• Primary Completion: November 11, 2017
• Study Completion: January 11, 2018
• Last Updated: February 22, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)