Smoking Prevention
Conditions
Keywords
Games, Adolescent, Health education, Smoking, Health literacy
Brief summary
This feasibility study evaluates acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a digital health game as an intervention supporting tobacco-related health literacy in 10- to 13-year-old early adolescents. One third of the study participants will receive the health game, on third a web page with similar content and one third will act as a control group without intervention.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALHealth game
Health game intervention consists of 20 minutes guided training session with the health game at school and 2 weeks free usage of the health game via own smart phone or tablet computer during free time. The health game includes textual information about the consequences of tobacco use, but also visualized elements that aim at supporting understanding of the information, and motivation and ability to use the information in daily life situations. The visualized content is presented in a format of a game including tasks, rules, goals, rewards and opponents. There are also sound effects and background music included in the game.
BEHAVIORALWeb page
Web page intervention consists of 20 minutes guided training session with the web page at school and 2 weeks free usage of the web page via own smart phone or tablet computer during free time. The web page includes textual information about the consequences of tobacco use, but also visualized elements that aim at supporting understanding of the information, and motivation and ability to use the information in daily life situations. The visualized elements are presented with pictures and video clips. These visualized elements do NOT contain game elements (NO activating tasks, rules, goals, rewards or opponents). The video clips contain sound effects, but no background music.
Sponsors
University of Turku
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
10 Years to 13 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Goes to school at 4th, 5th or 6th grade * Understands and can communicate either in Finnish, Swedish or English * Has daily access to either a smart phone or tablet computer during free time
Exclusion criteria
* Takes part to specialized education
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in anti-smoking self-efficacy | At baseline and at 2 weeks | Assessed with Anti-smoking self-efficacy scale (ASSES) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in smoking outcome expectations | At baseline and at 2 weeks | Assessed with Smoking Outcome Expectation scale (SOES) |
| Change in attitudes towards tobacco use questionnaire scores | At baseline and at 2 weeks | Assessed with a 4 point likert-scale questionnaire |
| Change in tobacco use-related motives questionnaire scores | At baseline and at 2 weeks | Assessed with a 4 point likert-scale questionnaire |
| Actual use of the intervention | During 2 weeks period | Actual use of the intervention is tracked with log files |
| Self-assessed interest towards the intervention | At 2 weeks | Assessed with a 4 point likert-scale questionnaire |
Countries
Finland
Outcome results
None listed