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NCT Number: NCT03486275

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Paris Diderot University

Paris, 75018, France

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • to be a french general practice clinical supervisor

Exclusion criteria

  • none

Treatment and study plan

Hygie

Device

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

Device

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. Knowledge test

    Time frame: completed 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention, i.e. 4 to 6 weeks after randomization

    Mean score at a final knowledge test

  2. Delta knowledge

    Time frame: pretest before randomization, posttest 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention (i.e. 4 to 6 weeks after randomization)

    Mean difference score between knowledge pretest and final knowledge test (posttest

Secondary outcomes

  1. Satisfaction

    Time frame: one week after randomization (end of access to support)

    Satisfaction survey completed at the end of the intervention access week

  2. Playing time

    Time frame: during the first week of access to support of intervention

    Time spended playing by subjects assigned to Hygie

  3. Use in practice

    Time frame: completed 3 to 5 weeks after the end of the intervention, i.e. 4 to 6 weeks after randomization

    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?"

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Hygie

Other

Registry information

Official study title

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

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2017
Study completion
2017
First posted
Apr 3, 2018
Registry last updated
Apr 10, 2018

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