Games & Well-Being Study

Adolescent Behavior Clinical Trial

— GWB  

Official title:

Neural Correlates of Video Game Based Training to Foster Mindfulness and Prosocial Skills in Adolescents

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01886911
• Other study ID #: Davidson-GWB
• Secondary ID: Bill & Melinda G
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 19, 2013
• Last updated: September 30, 2015
• Start date: June 2013
• Est. completion date: May 2015

Study information

• Verified date: June 2015
• Source: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This project is focused on the neural and behavioral correlates of two different videos games that will be used as training tools. The two video games, developed by the Games Learning Society research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, are tailored to train mindfulness, particularly the regulation of attention; and prosocial behavior, especially sensitivity to others, in adolescents. This study will evaluate the hypothesis that systematic playing of mindfulness and prosocial games will change brain function in specific attentional, social and emotional circuits in potentially beneficial ways, and will impact performance on cognitive tasks of attention, and on measures of social cue perception and the propensity to share and behave altruistically. The investigators will employ behavioral and functional MRI-based neuroimaging measures to evaluate the investigators hypothesis.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 192
• Est. completion date: May 2015
• Est. primary completion date: March 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 12 Years to 15 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Fluent English speaker

• Enrolled in 7th or 8th grade

Exclusion Criteria:

• Currently on psychotropic medications

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescent Behavior
• Attentional Processing

Intervention

Other:
• Attention Training Intervention Game

• Prosocial Training Intervention Game

• Control for Attention Intervention

• Control for Prosocial Intervention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Madison	Wisconsin

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change from baseline in behavioral measures	Change in behavioral measures before and after attentional video game training. Timeframe is up to 7 days following the end of the 2 week game playing period.	baseline and up to 3 weeks	No
Primary	Change from baseline in fMRI	Change in fMRI neural markers of empathic accuracy before and after attentional video game training. Timeframe is up to 7 days following the 2 week game playing period.	baseline and up to 3 weeks	No