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

NCT03965377 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: STUDY00008278
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Parenting

Keywords

effectiveness of gaming technology; knowledge of childhood injury prevention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Learning

  The game is designed to improve speed of identifying home safety hazards with and without distractions and also identify effective resolutions of the risks. Speed in identification is measured in seconds. Effectiveness in identifying resolutions is measured in seconds as well (e.g., seconds til correct response). Average time to identification of risks in each of the three phases of the game can be computed (Identification Phase, Resolution Phase, and Distraction Phase). The game will also give whether the resolutions selected are correct and thus, a percentage of correct resolutions can be computed for the entire resolution phase.

  one week (four plays of the game) The outcomes average seconds until identification will be examined across the four game plays and also can be examined for each of four plays of the game.

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• :Perception of efficacy in preventing childhood injuries: PARENT SENSE OF INJURY COMPETENCE SCALE

  pre and one week later This outcome will be measured using PARENT SENSE OF INJURY COMPETENCE SCALE. This instrument has 16 items that are rated on a 1-6 scale with 6 indicating greater efficacy. The items are totaled for overall efficacy perception.

• Engagement in the game

  This instrument is collected one time at post test once they have completed game play. The time frame is one week after entering the study.

Study Arms (1)

Home Safety Hero game play

EXPERIMENTAL

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

Behavioral: Home Safety Hero Computer Game

Interventions

Home Safety Hero Computer Game 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).

Home Safety Hero game play

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Years - 20 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: Based on self-representation of gender identity
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Penn State University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Sandra T. Azar

University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Sandra T Azar, PhD

  Penn State University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Model Details: 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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 10, 2019
• First Posted: May 29, 2019
• Study Start: February 6, 2019
• Primary Completion: August 31, 2022
• Study Completion: December 30, 2022
• Last Updated: December 8, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)