Quit IT: Development of a Web-based, 3D Coping Skills Game to Increase Self-Efficacy for Maintaining Smoking Abstinence Following Hospitalization

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Tobacco Use Cessation
• Interventions: Other: web-based video game (Quit IT); Behavioral: Questionnaires; Behavioral: Evaluation Interview

• Registration Number: NCT01915836
• Lead Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to test a web-based video game to help cancer patients quit smoking. The investigators are interested in what participants like and do not like about the game.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-03
• Study First Submitted: 2013-08-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-08-02
• Study First Posted: 2013-08-05
• Status Verified: 2014-12
• Primary Completion: 2014-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-12-10
• Last Update Posted: 2014-12-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• Treated by the MSKCC Tobacco Cessation Program
• At least 30 years of age

Exclusion Criteria

• Insufficient manual dexterity and vision to use a computer and mouse as per self-report
• Unstable medical or psychiatric condition as determined by the PI and Co-PI.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Alpha game testers and questionaires	web-based video game (Quit IT)	This a video game designed to help smokers quit \& remain non-smokers. Before the start the game,the participant will fill out a brief questionnaire. It should take about 5 minutes to complete. Once this is done, the game play should last about 30 minutes \& will present with different scenes. These scenes will show situations that may trigger smoking urges such as walking into a room where another person is smoking. In the game, the participant will be able to use different ways of coping with urges to smoke such as taking several deep breaths or listening to music. The participant will be asked to talk aloud about what they think of the game. The participant will be video \&/or audio recorded while doing this. Once finished testing the game, we will then ask you a few questions about what you thought of the game. We will also ask you how relevant different situations are to you as a smoker or someone who is trying to avoid smoking. The entire visit is expected to last about 1.5 hours.
Alpha game testers and questionaires	Questionnaires	This a video game designed to help smokers quit \& remain non-smokers. Before the start the game,the participant will fill out a brief questionnaire. It should take about 5 minutes to complete. Once this is done, the game play should last about 30 minutes \& will present with different scenes. These scenes will show situations that may trigger smoking urges such as walking into a room where another person is smoking. In the game, the participant will be able to use different ways of coping with urges to smoke such as taking several deep breaths or listening to music. The participant will be asked to talk aloud about what they think of the game. The participant will be video \&/or audio recorded while doing this. Once finished testing the game, we will then ask you a few questions about what you thought of the game. We will also ask you how relevant different situations are to you as a smoker or someone who is trying to avoid smoking. The entire visit is expected to last about 1.5 hours.
Alpha game testers and questionaires	Evaluation Interview	This a video game designed to help smokers quit \& remain non-smokers. Before the start the game,the participant will fill out a brief questionnaire. It should take about 5 minutes to complete. Once this is done, the game play should last about 30 minutes \& will present with different scenes. These scenes will show situations that may trigger smoking urges such as walking into a room where another person is smoking. In the game, the participant will be able to use different ways of coping with urges to smoke such as taking several deep breaths or listening to music. The participant will be asked to talk aloud about what they think of the game. The participant will be video \&/or audio recorded while doing this. Once finished testing the game, we will then ask you a few questions about what you thought of the game. We will also ask you how relevant different situations are to you as a smoker or someone who is trying to avoid smoking. The entire visit is expected to last about 1.5 hours.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Usability (10-item Game Usability Scale)	1 time	we will ask each participant to complete a Game Usability Scale3 which is a robust and highly recommended 10-item measure of usability developed for software testing that provides a global view of subjective assessments of usability.
Satisfaction	1 time	(users' subjective reactions to using the system) After the game play session, we will have participants complete an Avatar and Situation Menu Questionnaire so that participants can give feedback on 3 different avatars and 15 different coping with smoking challenges regarding how relevant each is to them as a smoker or someone trying to avoid smoking.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States