Development and Evaluation of Hygie, a New Serious Game for Continuing Medical Education of General Practitioners

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION Clinical Trial

Official title:

Development and Evaluation of Hygie, a New Serious Game for Continuing Medical Education of General Practitioners: a Randomized Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03486275
• Other study ID #: Hygie1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 27, 2018
• Last updated: April 8, 2018
• Start date: May 31, 2017
• Est. completion date: September 6, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: April 2018
• Source: Hygie
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

We produced a prototype video game called Hygie on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva). We then carried out a randomized trial comparing the learning provided by a week of access to the game versus source articles, in a population of clinical supervisors (CS) from 13 French departments of general practice.

Description:

Continuing medical education is important but burdensome work for general practitioners. Current training tools have limitations and may lack the ability to engage some practitioners. Serious games are new pedagogical tools that use video games as engaging education tools. They have significant advantages in terms of efficiency and dissemination.

The aim of this work was to create a new serious game and to evaluate it in terms of efficiency and satisfaction, comparing it with a traditional method of continuing education: article reading.

We produced a prototype video game called Hygie on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva). We then carried out a randomized trial comparing the learning provided by a week of access to the game versus source articles, in a population of clinical supervisors (CS) from 14 French departments of general practice.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 3398
• Est. completion date: September 6, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: September 6, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• to be a french general practice clinical supervisor

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

Intervention

Device:
• Hygie
Prototype video game called Hygie, accessible on the Internet, on the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice using 9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva).
• Source articles
9 articles from independent journals based on evidence (reviews by Prescrire and Minerva), about the 5 most common reasons of consultation in general practice, accessible on the Internet.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Paris Diderot University	Paris

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hygie

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Knowledge test	Mean score at a final knowledge test	completed 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention, i.e. 4 to 6 weeks after randomization
Primary	Delta knowledge	Mean difference score between knowledge pretest and final knowledge test (posttest	pretest before randomization, posttest 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention (i.e. 4 to 6 weeks after randomization)
Secondary	Satisfaction	Satisfaction survey completed at the end of the intervention access week	one week after randomization (end of access to support)
Secondary	Playing time	Time spended playing by subjects assigned to Hygie	during the first week of access to support of intervention
Secondary	Use in practice	completed 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention, participants answer the question "In the course of your practice, did you use the knowledge you learned through the teaching material?"	completed 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention, i.e. 4 to 6 weeks after randomization

External Links

•   prototype of the game Hygie