Gaming Technology to Engage Adolescent Sickle Cell Patients in Pain Management

Sickle Cell Disease Clinical Trial

Official title:

PINPOINT: Gaming Technology to Engage Adolescent Sickle Cell Patients in Precision Pain Management

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03291613
• Other study ID #: 1R43MD010746-01
• Secondary ID: 03081R43MD010746
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 15, 2017
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: January 2019
• Source: Klein Buendel, Inc.
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a common genetic disorder characterized by episodes of pain, yet assessments to identify type, intensity, frequency, and phase of pain among SCD adolescents is lacking. Research shows that interactive gaming technology can enhance adolescents' learning, and can be especially effective in delivering health-related messages and tools to improve their self-care. Pinpoint is an interactive gaming tablet app that will be developed with the significant input of clinical experts to assist SCD teens with better identification and self-report of their pain.

Description:

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited blood disorder in the U.S. and disproportionately affects African Americans and Hispanics. Approximately, 1,000 U.S. children are born with SCD annually. SCD results from abnormal hemoglobin and causes red blood cells (RBCs) to become misshaped ("sickle-shaped"). Sickled cells can block the flow of blood in small arteries causing tissue and organ damage and other life-threatening comorbidities. SCD complications can be serious and have a significant impact upon well-being and quality of life. Pain is the hallmark symptom associated with SCD, and is the most common clinical problem seen in children and the number one cause of SCD-related hospital admissions. If left untreated, these painful episodes can result in morbidity and mortality. Accurate assessment of pain specifiers (type, frequency, and intensity of pain) can help with ameliorating pain quickly and effectively. Despite children being accurate self-reporters of their pain, strategies which are effective and engaging to assist with pain identification are lacking. Reducing barriers to collection and promoting the value of accurate SCD pain assessment is a need in pediatric medicine. Pinpoint will be an innovative interactive assessment tool that engages patients while allowing physicians to collect important health data. This project will test the feasibility of applying gamification principles to develop a tablet application ("app") for 13-17 year olds with SCD. Specifically, this Phase I SBIR project will (1) develop a Pain Assessment Tool (PAT) to describe and categorize specific types of pain experienced by adolescents with SCD; and (2) create an app ("Pinpoint"), that will translate the PAT into gamified technology. The goal of Pinpoint is to engage adolescent patients and improve pain specification by developing a game-based pain assessment tool delivered via a tablet app to engage adolescent SCD patients, improve their pain specification self-report, and improve pain management by clinicians. The PAT will be developed using expert guidance from preeminent SCD clinicians. User-centered Design theory will be applied in the development of the app and will be guided by iterative cognitive interviews and focus groups with members of the target population, SCD teens. The project specific aims are to (1) develop the PAT using guidance from an Expert Advisory Board (EAB) of SCD clinicians; (2) conduct a series of cognitive interviews with adolescent SCD patients to guide and refine PAT development; (3) conduct iterative focus groups with adolescent SCD patients to guide and refine user interface design of the Pinpoint app; (4) program a functional Pinpoint prototype; and (5) conduct usability testing of the prototype with 13-17 year old SCD patients to assess functionality, navigation, and satisfaction. This project is innovative and timely. Pinpoint will be the first tablet app to identify and translate specific pain types for SCD into a gamified app using applied gamification principles.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 13
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 13 Years and older

Eligibility

Phone Interview, Focus Group, and Usability Inclusion Criteria:

• Be 13-17 years of age

• Be diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease

• Able to read and speak English

• Able to assent to participate

Phone Interview, Focus Group, and Usability Exclusion Criteria:

• Not 13-17 years of age

• Not diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease

• Unable to read and speak English

• Unable to assent to participate

Healthcare Provider Interview Inclusion Criteria:

• Be a healthcare provider to teens with sickle cell disease

• Be 18 years of age or older

• Able to read and speak English

• Able to consent to participate

Healthcare Provider Interview Exclusion Criteria:

• Not a healthcare provider to teens with sickle cell disease

• Not 18 years of age or older

• Unable to read and speak English

• Unable to consent to participate

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anemia, Sickle Cell
• Sickle Cell Disease

Intervention

Other:
• Pinpoint App
Tablet app with pain assessment and communication education, and pain assessment tool.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Klein Buendel, Inc.	Golden	Colorado
United States	Hilton Publishing Company	Munster	Indiana

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Klein Buendel, Inc.	Hilton Publishing Company, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	System Usability Questionnaire	Ten likert-type questions assessing user-friendliness of technology. Each question has five answer options that range from "Strongly Agree" to "Strongly Disagree". Scores range from 0-100. A score of 68 or above is considered above average. All scores averaged.	After 1-hour usability session