Playful Gameplay Broadens Thought-Action Repertoires: Effects of Playfulness on Meaningful Engagement in Health Games
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 89
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Dietary Choice
研究概览
简要总结
Pediatric obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. It is a serious problem that is expected to create lifelong health challenges and potentially overwhelm the ability of healthcare providers to manage the consequences. While many factors contribute to pediatric obesity, dietary choices are the leading cause. A key concern is how to inculcate healthy dietary habits early among young children. Over the past 20 years, there has been significant scientific interest in examining the potential learning consequences of playing video games given children's interests in such games. This study investigates the impact of a health video game on children's nutritional knowledge and dietary choices.
详细描述
Brief Overview of the Study Protocol
Study Design, Participants and Recruitment
A cluster randomized controlled trial with three data collection periods-baseline, post one, and post two- will be adopted for this study. We will collaborate with a primary school in the North-East District of Botswana. Recruitment will be done with the help of the school with which we are collaborating. The children will be sent home with consent forms to obtain parental consent. Before participation, eligible parents will provide informed consent and child assent. To ensure sufficient power of 0.8 with a medium effect size, 120 participants will be recruited to participate in the experiment.
Procedures
Following baseline assessment, the children will be randomly assigned to one of three groups: playfulness condition, non-playfulness condition, and control condition. The playfulness and non-playfulness conditions will vary in terms of the climate such that children in the playfulness condition will have a relaxed, play-oriented context while those in the non-playfulness condition will have a more formal work-oriented context. The children in the control condition will play a video game that is unrelated to diet and lifestyle choices. Randomization will be done at the class/cluster level to avoid contamination between the experimental conditions (Puffer et al. 2005). The baseline survey, including demographics and family environment, gaming experience/ frequency of gameplay, nutrition knowledge, social cognitive factors (i.e., attitude, intention, and health locus of control), will be administered after obtaining consent. Since the administration of a pre-test survey may change the way that participants interact with the game (during the experiment) and/or suggest to the participants that there is a socially desirable way to respond to outcome measures, the pre-test survey will be administered a week before the actual experiment. Post 1 experiment data collection will occur immediately upon completion of the experiment. The study will be conducted from November 2019 to May 2020. Post 2 experiment data collection will occur three months after the experiments.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 8 Years 至 11 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •children in primary level 4 between the ages of 8-11
- •children fluent in English
- •children who have a parent fluent in English who is willing to participate in the study
排除标准
- •children with a history of photosensitive epilepsy
- •children with implantable medical devices such as cardiac pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
- •underweight children
结局指标
主要结局
Dietary Choice
时间窗: 1 day
After each experiment, participants will be asked to choose between six actual food items under the pretext of a parting gift. Of these six, three will be healthy: orange, apple and banana, and three will be unhealthy: potato chips, biscuits and master pop juice. Following prior literature, the gift selection will serve as the onsite objective measure of behavior. We will make sure that the choices are a single small serving so as not to contribute to the problem of unhealthy dietary habits.
Subjective Nutrition Knowledge (SNK)
时间窗: 1 day
The SNK measure will be adapted from prior research (Moorman et al. 2004). SNK will be will be assessed using three items: 1) I am able to understand product information on food labels; 2) I know the difference between healthy snacks and unhealthy snacks; 3) I know the difference between healthy drinks and unhealthy drinks. Response options will range from 1=totally disagree to 5=totally agree.
Subjective Experiences of Discrete Emotions
时间窗: 1 day
To capture subjective discrete emotions, we will adopt the child version of the positive and negative affect scale, the PANAS-C (Laurent et al. 1999). We select emotions that are relevant to our context (Liu et al. 2017). We will capture six discrete emotions. Of the six, three are positive (excited, joyful, and energetic), and three are negative (upset, nervous, and gloomy).
Objective Nutrition Knowledge (ONK)
时间窗: 1 day
ONK will be captured using the children's identification of healthy foods measure (Tatlow-Golden et al. 2013). Correct answers will be summed to create this formative measure.
次要结局
- Health locus of control(1 day)
- Dietary Intention(1 day)
研究者
Oteng Ntsweng
Principal Investigator
National University of Singapore