NCT04096196|Completed
A Game-based Educational Approach to Promote Child Safety Knowledge and Behaviours
Safe City: a Game-based Educational Approach to Promote Child Safety Knowledge and Behaviours
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Safe City: a Game-based Educational Approach to Promote Child Safety Knowledge and Behaviours
Sponsor study identifier
interventional
340
1 country
1
Study Start
September 1, 2020
Actual (reported)Primary Completion
August 31, 2022
Actual (reported)Study Completion
March 2, 2023
Actual (reported)The project will design and develop a game for teaching safety as a way to reduce childhood injury. To evaluate the effectiveness of the designed game, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) following the CONSORT RCT guidelines will be conducted. All students in Primary 4-6 (equivalent to US Grades 4-6) from the participating school will be invited to join the trial, which will be then randomized into the game or health education group. All students in the game group will be invited to play the designed game with instructions provided, while those in health education group will receive a comprehensive package on safety information. The intervention will last 4 weeks, with the safety knowledge and behaviours, and psychosocial difficulties of the participants being assessed before and 1 and 3 months after the intervention. The effectiveness of the intervention in achieving the proposed targets will be estimated using linear mixed models.
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March 2, 2023
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September 13, 2019
Actual (reported)September 19, 2019
Actual (reported)September 1, 2020
Actual (reported)August 31, 2022
Actual (reported)March 2, 2023
Actual (reported)Changes from baseline safety knowledge at 1 month
Child safety knowledge will be measured by different items adopted from the existing literature and questionnaires under the three contexts: home safety, road safety, and sports-related safety. Child participants will be asked to indicate their level of involvement in the said behaviour on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "Never" to "Very Often", or their agreement on the given statement based upon their own safety knowledge on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree".
At baseline and 1 and 3 months after the intervention
Changes from baseline safety knowledge at 3 months
Child safety knowledge will be measured by different items adopted from the existing literature and questionnaires under the three contexts: home safety, road safety, and sports-related safety. Child participants will be asked to indicate their level of involvement in the said behaviour on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "Never" to "Very Often", or their agreement on the given statement based upon their own safety knowledge on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree".
At baseline and 1 and 3 months after the intervention
Changes from baseline safety behaviours at 1 month
Child safety behaviours will be measured by different items adopted from the existing literature and questionnaires under the three contexts: home safety, road safety, and sports-related safety. Child participants will be asked to indicate their level of involvement in the said behaviour on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "Never" to "Very Often", or their agreement on the given statement based upon their own safety knowledge on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree".
At baseline and 1 and 3 months after the intervention
Changes from baseline child generic quality of life at 1 month
At baseline and 1 and 3 months after the intervention
Changes from baseline child generic quality of life at 3 months
At baseline and 1 and 3 months after the intervention
Changes from baseline children behaviours at 1 month
At baseline and 1 and 3 months after the intervention
Changes from baseline children behaviours at 3 months
At baseline and 1 and 3 months after the intervention
Participants assigned to the intervention group will be given a manual containing instructions to play the Safe City game. A research assistant will provide a briefing session on the game in each participating school. A unique username and password set will be created for each user to log in the game. This login information will be provided to the student participants in a sealed envelope after the briefing session. The participants will be instructed to play the game as many times as desired within a 4-week time frame. The players ranked in the top 20 will receive a reward in the form of book coupon after the intervention ends.
All students in the health education group will receive a comprehensive package on safety information. The information package includes both printed and electronic promotional materials regarding safety and a comprehensive list of relevant website and information sources. The information from these relevant websites and information sources are similar to those used in setting the safety case scenarios for the Safe City game. As a result, both intervention arms will have comparable accessibility to safety-related information and the major contrast between the two groups will be the method of presentation (game-based learning vs traditional health promotion approach, i.e. unidirectional information package).
The game intervention uses a game-based learning approach to teach players how to recognize and remove injury hazards from different homes and sports areas. It also highlights the need to pay attention to traffic and safety facilities to prevent injuries in a real-world environment. Players will create their own avatar to assume the duties of safety inspectors in the game. Point, level and reward systems will be included to increase player motivation to engage in the game.
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wong RS, Tung KTS, Ho FKW, Wong WHS, Chow CB, Chan KL, Fu KW, Ip P. Effect of a Mobile Game-Based Intervention to Enhance Child Safety: Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2024 Feb 14;26:e51908. doi: 10.2196/51908.
Wong RS, Tung KT, Wong HT, Ho FK, Wong HS, Fu KW, Pong TC, Chan KL, Chow CB, Ip P. A Mobile Game (Safe City) Designed to Promote Children's Safety Knowledge and Behaviors: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2020 Jun 12;9(6):e17756. doi: 10.2196/17756.
Patrick Ip, MBBS, MPH
The University of Hong Kong
340 participants (actual enrollment reported by the registry).
First Submitted
September 13, 2019
First Posted
September 19, 2019
Study Start
September 1, 2020
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Changes from baseline safety behaviours at 3 months
Child safety behaviours will be measured by different items adopted from the existing literature and questionnaires under the three contexts: home safety, road safety, and sports-related safety. Child participants will be asked to indicate their level of involvement in the said behaviour on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "Never" to "Very Often", or their agreement on the given statement based upon their own safety knowledge on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree".
At baseline and 1 and 3 months after the intervention
All students in the health education group will receive a comprehensive package on safety information. The information package includes both printed and electronic promotional materials regarding safety and a comprehensive list of relevant website and information sources. The information from these relevant websites and information sources are similar to those used in setting the safety case scenarios for the Safe City game. As a result, both intervention arms will have comparable accessibility to safety-related information and the major contrast between the two groups will be the method of presentation (game-based learning vs traditional health promotion approach, i.e. unidirectional information package).
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Primary Completion
August 31, 2022
Actual (reported)Study Completion
March 2, 2023
Actual (reported)Last Updated
June 8, 2023
Record last verified: 2022-05
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