Prevention in a Virtual Community Game

NCT04888208 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: APHP-INSERM
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 106
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The main objective of the SCOTT project is to reduce tobacco experimentation of teenagers through an online intervention based on social networking and empowerment of users. Specific objectives of this emerging project are : 1. To develop or identify an online community dedicated to teenagers where the investigators will develop anti-smoking skills and norms. It will be based on social cognitive theory and will combine multiple functionalities based on the current practices and preferences of adolescents on internet and mobile; ensuring user safety, regulatory and ethical issues ; 2. To analyse the adoption, acceptance and the usability of SCOTT among users in a limited scale 3.To develop SCOTT process and impact assessment methodology. Research hypothesis Providing access to prevention in an online community will: 1) Strengthen anti-smoking skills 2) Enhance the empowerment of users 3) Allow the implementation of health interventions 4) Improve indicators of tobacco consumption in young people Methods The overall methodology of the project relies on a multidisciplinary approach with a consortium of French experts in public health (health promotion and epidemiology), education science, information and communication technologies, medical informatics, adolescent medicine, adolescent addictology, social sciences, ethics and law. The project will be led in 3 parts: 1) Development of the intervention - using the Integrate, Design, Assess, and Share (IDEAS) framework. Using qualitative methods (individual interview, focus groups), multidisciplinary team brainstorming, works meeting and quantitative assessment of SCOTT quality; the investigators will (a) empathize with target users, (b) specify target behavior, (c) ground in behavioral theory, (d) ideate implementation strategies, (e) prototype potential products, (f) gather user feedback, (g) build a minimum viable product, 2) Pilot study : (h) SCOTT will be deploying on a small scale to assess its usability; 3) Development of the large-scale evaluation protocol - following the recommendations of the Medical Research Council concerning the evaluation of complex interventions. The investigators will (i) develop, based on the results of the pilot test, the SCOTT process evaluation methodology, (j) develop the SCOTT impact / effectiveness evaluation methodology.

Conditions

Tabagism

Keywords

Primary prevention; Adolescents; Internet; Empowerment; Community participation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• smoking behaviors perception

  questionnaires build on the validated questionnaire of P2P trial (F. Coussin Gélie, BMC Public Health, 2018) derived from elements of Theory of Planned Behavior related to tabagism

  4 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Behavioral

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention group will benefit from discussion sessions on tobacco within the virtual world, with a group of pairs and 2 facilitators (public health researchers).

Behavioral: Behavioral

Control Arm

NO INTERVENTION

The control group will be offered sources of conventional health information (government and institutional websites) on a terminal located in the virtual world.

Interventions

Behavioral BEHAVIORAL

The intervention group will benefit from discussion sessions on tobacco within the virtual world, with a group of pairs and 2 facilitators (public health researchers).

Behavioral

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 10 Years - 20 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Players of the French-speaking HABBO community;
• Informed and consentent to the study;
• Agreeing to complete the baseline study questionnaire.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris: lead
• Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Robert Debré Hospital

Paris, 75019, France

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Martin P, Chapoton B, Bourmaud A, Dumas A, Kivits J, Eyraud C, Dubois C, Alberti C, Le Roux E. Health Promotion in Popular Web-Based Community Games Among Young People: Proposals, Recommendations, and Applications. JMIR Serious Games. 2023 Jun 9;11:e39465. doi: 10.2196/39465.

  PMID: 37294609 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Empowerment

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Social Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Corinne Alberti, MD, PhD

  APHP

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 29, 2021
• First Posted: May 17, 2021
• Study Start: October 1, 2020
• Primary Completion: October 22, 2020
• Study Completion: November 15, 2020
• Last Updated: May 17, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FR (1)