Prognosis--A Game-Based Intervention to Improve STEM Skills

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Interventions: Behavioral: Prognosis

• Registration Number: NCT03416218
• Lead Sponsor: University of Chicago

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a game-based intervention (Prognosis) designed to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills among high school-aged students.

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usability, feasibility, and acceptability of a game-based intervention (Prognosis) designed to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills among high school-aged students. The research questions are as follows:

H1: Students will find Prognosis usable, feasible, and acceptable and recommend continued development and testing of Prognosis.

H2: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to perform basic quantitative data skills such as calculating incidence and prevalence.

H3: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to observe patterns in data at the neighborhood and city level.

H4: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to construct explanations and models describing the organization of systems in the game and how they contribute to health outcomes.

H5: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to formulate and test hypotheses for how to best coordinate various city systems and leverage finite resources to reach their target health goal.

Basic Information
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-01-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-01-23
• Study First Posted: 2018-01-31
• Study Start: 2018-02-05
• Primary Completion: 2019-12-31
• Study Completion: 2019-12-31
• Status Verified: 2024-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-08-08
• Last Update Posted: 2024-08-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 31

Inclusion Criteria

• Enrolled in study site high school
• 9th or 10th grade at time of study

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Exclusion Criteria

• Students not in 9th and 10th grade

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Prognosis	All participants enrolled in the study will play Prognosis, the intervention being assessed in this study.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Usability of the game-based intervention Prognosis	immediately after completing the intervention	questionnaire
Acceptability of the game-based intervention Prognosis as assessed by participants	immediately after completing the intervention	questionnaire
Feasibility of the game-based intervention Prognosis	immediately after completing the intervention	questionnaire

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assessing participants' ability to solve quantitative epidemiological problems	immediately after completing the intervention	Administered through a survey, questions derived from the Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, Third Edition, An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics https://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/index.html
Perceived self-efficacy to learn STEM concepts	immediately after completing the intervention	5 questions asking students about their perceived self-efficacy relating to achieving learning objectives. Developed for this study.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Chicago; 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States