Flow Regulation in Medical Serious Games

NCT05637749 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: IRB-2022-739
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 53
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this study is to access the effect of facilitation on amount of psychological Flow generated in medical students playing a medical serious game. Students will be randomly assigned to play a serious game designed to revise diabetes management knowledge with and without a facilitator and the amount of Flow experienced compared. They will then be invited to partake in a focus group discussion to elicit insights into the mechanism of action governing facilitator-induced Flow

Conditions

Serious Games; Psychological Flow; Diabetes Mellitus

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Flow Short Scale (FSS) scores

  The FSS comprises 13 items on a 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1 ("not at all) to 7 ("very much"). It demonstrates good construct validity, psychometric properties, and a stable three-factor structure comprising fluency of performance, absorption by activity, and perceived importance or outcome importance of said activity.

  Immediately upon conclusion of the game activity

Study Arms (2)

Control

EXPERIMENTAL

Serious game intervention to be played as is, without facilitation.

Other: Medical serious game intervention (educational)

Intervention

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Serious game intervention to be played with facilitator present in game environment.

Other: Medical serious game intervention (educational)

Interventions

Medical serious game intervention (educational) OTHER

Medical serious game designed to facilitate the rehearsal of diabetes management knowledge. Players are presented with a colony of individuals, all of whom have some form of diabetes, and are tasked to manage food, insulin, and medication intake throughout the day. The intervention may be played with a facilitator.

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 19 Years - 30 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Subjects enrolled in M1 through to M5 of the MBBS program under LKCMedicine.

You may not qualify if:

• Students who have previously partaken in play testing of the intervention
• Students not enrolled in the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) program under LKCMedicine

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Nanyang Technological University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Singapore, 308232, Singapore

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Tan JW, Tan G, Lian X, Chong DKS, Rajalingam P, Dalan R, Mogali SR. Impact of Facilitation on Cognitive Flow in a Novel Diabetes Management Rehearsal Game for Health Professions Education: Mixed Methods, Open-Label, Superiority Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Serious Games. 2024 Jul 17;12:e54703. doi: 10.2196/54703.

  PMID: 38900700 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Diabetes Mellitus

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Glucose Metabolism Disorders; Metabolic Diseases; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Endocrine System Diseases

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor, Head of Anatomy

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 24, 2022
• First Posted: December 5, 2022
• Study Start: February 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: September 6, 2023
• Study Completion: September 6, 2023
• Last Updated: March 21, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

SG (1)