Prognosis--A Game-Based Intervention to Improve STEM Skills

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Clinical Trial

Official title:

Prognosis--A Game-Based Intervention to Improve STEM Skills

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03416218
• Other study ID #: IRB17-1416
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 5, 2018
• Last updated: February 12, 2018
• Start date: May 2018
• Est. completion date: September 2019

Study information

• Verified date: February 2018
• Source: University of Chicago
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a game-based intervention (Prognosis) designed to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills among high school-aged students.

Description:

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usability, feasibility, and acceptability of a game-based intervention (Prognosis) designed to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills among high school-aged students. The research questions are as follows:

H1: Students will find Prognosis usable, feasible, and acceptable and recommend continued development and testing of Prognosis.

H2: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to perform basic quantitative data skills such as calculating incidence and prevalence.

H3: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to observe patterns in data at the neighborhood and city level.

H4: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to construct explanations and models describing the organization of systems in the game and how they contribute to health outcomes.

H5: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to formulate and test hypotheses for how to best coordinate various city systems and leverage finite resources to reach their target health goal.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 90
• Est. completion date: September 2019
• Est. primary completion date: May 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Enrolled in study site high school

• 9th or 10th grade at time of study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Students not in 9th and 10th grade

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Prognosis
Prognosis will be a single-player 2D, digital simulation game and supporting multimedia website. Players are situated as a major official of Hexacago, and tasks them with managing the city's finances, education levels, and health concerns to lower rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. In the game Prognosis, player dispatches professionals from a variety of fields to different neighborhoods around the city, observing the effects of their resource allocation decisions across multiple systems over many in-game months. The supporting multimedia website will house curriculum and learning tools to support the learning objectives of Prognosis.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Chicago

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Acceptability of the game-based intervention Prognosis as assessed by participants	questionnaire	immediately after completing the intervention
Primary	Feasibility of the game-based intervention Prognosis	questionnaire	immediately after completing the intervention
Primary	Usability of the game-based intervention Prognosis	questionnaire	immediately after completing the intervention
Secondary	Assessing participants' ability to solve quantitative epidemiological problems	Administered through a survey, questions derived from the Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, Third Edition, An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics https://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/index.html	immediately after completing the intervention
Secondary	Perceived self-efficacy to learn STEM concepts	5 questions asking students about their perceived self-efficacy relating to achieving learning objectives. Developed for this study.	immediately after completing the intervention