Implementation and Dissemination of an Evidence-Based Tobacco Product Use Prevention Videogame Intervention With Adolescents

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Smoking Cessation; Smoking
• Interventions: Device: smokeSCREEN web-based game

• Registration Number: NCT03815591
• Lead Sponsor: Yale University

Brief Summary

To examine the effects on participants who play the smokeSCREEN game in that the game will have positive changes in their attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, intentions, behaviors and other outcomes related to smoking and tobacco products.

Detailed Description

For this project, the CVS Pharmacy Health Foundation has identified after-school, school, and youth programs nationwide with whom to partner. For this project, the play2PREVENT Lab will provide these programs access to the tobacco use reduction/prevention game that the lab has created (smokeSCREEN). Program and school staff will enroll participants between the ages of 10-16 to play smokeSCREEN during their after school, school, and youth program. Before and after gameplay, participants will answer assessment questions related to their attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, intentions, and behaviors around smoking and tobacco product use. The data will be transmitted electronically via the LimeSurvey data collection platform to the Lab, for further analysis. None of the Lab staff will have contact with participants or after-school/school/youth program coordinators or staff.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-01-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-01-23
• Study First Posted: 2019-01-24
• Study Start: 2019-02-01
• Primary Completion: 2021-12-31
• Study Completion: 2021-12-31
• Status Verified: 2022-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-04-21
• Last Update Posted: 2022-04-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 560

Inclusion Criteria

• Anyone with a userID and password.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Does not fit the inclusion criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
adolescents between ages of 10-16	smokeSCREEN web-based game	Adolescents given a pre-post survey to measure the effect of the game and building that into the smokeSCREEN video game to anonymously collect information on players' perspectives, beliefs, attitudes, intentions, social norms, and behaviors around tobacco use, and collaborating with youth programs to pilot test how the game can be implemented in real world settings.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in beliefs	immediately after game play is completed	Participants completed a post-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), after they have played the videogame intervention. Fourteen questions were designed from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (2014)13 that focused on beliefs about cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco were used for the survey. For beliefs, questions had 4-5 choices ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree or definitely yes to definitely not, or 5 responses ranging from unlikely to very likely.
Change in knowledge	immediately after game play is completed	Participants completed a post-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), played the videogame intervention. Fourteen questions were designed from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (2014)13 that focused on knowledge about cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco were used for the surveys. For knowledge, questions had 3 response choices (yes, not, and not sure).
Change in intentions	Baseline	Participants will complete a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), immediately before playing the videogame intervention. Survey questions, adapted from the National Youth and Tobacco Use Survey (FDA, 2018), will assess participants' intention of using cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco. For questions assessing participants' intention of using tobacco products, response options range from definitely not to definitely yes (4 choices).
Change in behaviors	Immediately after gameplay is completed	Participants will complete a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), immediately before playing the videogame intervention. Survey questions, adapted from the National Youth and Tobacco Use Survey (FDA, 2018), will assess participants' intention of using cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco. For questions assessing participants' intention of using tobacco products, response options range from definitely not to definitely yes (4 choices).
Changes in social norms	Immediately after gameplay is completed	Participants will complete a pre-survey through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), immediately before playing the videogame intervention. Survey questions, adapted from the National Youth and Tobacco Use Survey (FDA, 2018), will assess participants' social norms surrounding the use of cigarettes, ecigarettes, and flavored tobacco. Questions assessing the number of friends/peers who use tobacco products will range from 0 to 4 (including an "I don't know" option). Questions, such as "How would your best friends act toward you if you smoked cigarettes," have response options ranging from very unfriendly to very friendly (4 choices).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Gameplay satisfaction: post-test survey	immediately after game play is completed	The post-test survey, administered through a secured, data collection website (LimeSurvey Data Collection Software), will include an additional 10 items on the game intervention experience and satisfaction from items designed for a previous videogame study on sexual risk reduction in young adolescents; 4 response choices ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

play2PREVENT Lab at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games; 🇺🇸 New Haven, Connecticut, United States