Promoting Early Adolescent Non-smoking With a Game Intervention Supporting Self-efficacy

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Self Efficacy; Smoking
• Interventions: Behavioral: Game intervention

• Registration Number: NCT05290103
• Lead Sponsor: University of Turku

Brief Summary

This intervention study evaluates the effectiveness of a digital game intervention supporting smoking refusal self-efficacy among early adolescents (10-13 y). The participants are randomly allocated to two groups: the experimental group that receives the digital game intervention, and the control group that receives no intervention.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-02-01
• Study First Submitted: 2022-03-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-03-21
• Study First Posted: 2022-03-22
• Primary Completion: 2022-06-05
• Study Completion: 2022-06-05
• Status Verified: 2023-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-05-09
• Last Update Posted: 2023-05-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 781

Inclusion Criteria

• Goes to school at 4th, 5th, or 6th grade
• Sufficient skills in Finnish or Swedish

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Game intervention	Game intervention	Participants in this arm will receive the game intervention including 15-30 minutes of digital health game playing at school and 2 weeks of free usage of the game during free time and a 30-minute debriefing session with a researcher.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in smoking refusal self-efficacy	At baseline, at 2 weeks, and at 3 months	Assessed with a smoking refusal self-efficacy scale (scores 6-24; higher scores indicate stronger smoking refusal self-efficacy).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in sources of refusal self-efficacy related to tobacco use	At baseline, at 2 weeks, and at 3 months	Subscales for cigarette use (7 items) and snus use (7 items). Both are assessed with a 4-point Likert-scale questionnaire.
Change in motivation to decline tobacco use in the future	At baseline, at 2 weeks, and at 3 months	Subscales for cigarette use and snus use. Both are assessed with a 4-point Likert-scale questionnaire (scores 1-4, lower scores indicate stonger motivation to decline tobacco use in future).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Primary schools (n=15); 🇫🇮 Nine Cities, Finland