Effectiveness of Board Game on Improving Elementary School Students' Infection Control

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Knowledge of Infection Control; Behavioral Intentions of Infection Control; Attitude of Infection Control
• Interventions: Other: gamified instruction; Other: conventional lesson lecture

• Registration Number: NCT06402227
• Lead Sponsor: HU, HUEY-LAN

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if board game can improve elementary school students' infection control intentions. The investigators use the theory of planned behavior (TPB), which includes three main factors: attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Exploring the factors influencing children's behavioral intentions of infection control through theory of planned behavior?

2. The effectiveness of board game on improving children's knowledge and behavioral intentions of infection control?

Researchers will compare gamified instruction to conventional lesson lecture to see if the former has better results.

Students who participated in filled out the questionnaire three times, each time taking about 15 to 20 minutes: before the intervention, after the intervention, and after a one-month delay. The students' legal representatives filled out a basic demographic questionnaire before intervention, which took about 5 minutes.

After a one-month delay, two groups of students were asked to filled out the post-test questionnaire again. Then, students in the control group were invited to participate in a board game and asked which teaching method they preferred (gamified instruction or conventional lesson lecture).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-11-01
• Primary Completion: 2024-03-30
• Study Completion: 2024-03-30
• Study First Submitted: 2024-04-06
• Status Verified: 2024-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-05-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-05-02
• Study First Posted: 2024-05-07
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 310

Inclusion Criteria

• Students in fifth to sixth grade of the elementary school (10 to 13 years old) and their legal representatives must fill in the informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria

• N/A

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
gamified instruction	gamified instruction	-
conventional lesson lecture	conventional lesson lecture	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
knowledge of infection control	baseline, the day receiving the intervention, a one-month delay after the intervention.	A self-developed knowledge questionnaire (S-CVI/UA=0.8, S-CVI/Ave=0.96) which has fifteen multiple choices questions was used to evaluate students' infection control knowledge over time (pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 4 weeks after intervention). The higher the score, the more positive the outcome.
intention to infection control behavior	baseline, the day receiving the intervention, a one-month delay after the intervention.	Theory of planned behavior guided questionnaire (S-CVI/UA=0.962, S-CVI/Ave=0.992) was developed to exam students' attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control toward infection control behavior over time (pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 4 weeks after intervention). A Likert 5-point scale was used in the TPB questionnaire, the higher the score, the higher the intention for infection control behavior.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National Yang Ming University; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Taiwan