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NCT Number: NCT03416218

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Behavior

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

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

Treatment and study plan

Prognosis

Behavioral

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. Acceptability of the game-based intervention Prognosis as assessed by participants

    Time frame: immediately after completing the intervention

    questionnaire

  2. Feasibility of the game-based intervention Prognosis

    Time frame: immediately after completing the intervention

    questionnaire

  3. Usability of the game-based intervention Prognosis

    Time frame: immediately after completing the intervention

    questionnaire

Secondary outcomes

  1. Assessing participants' ability to solve quantitative epidemiological problems

    Time frame: immediately after completing the intervention

    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

  2. Perceived self-efficacy to learn STEM concepts

    Time frame: immediately after completing the intervention

    5 questions asking students about their perceived self-efficacy relating to achieving learning objectives. Developed for this study.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Chicago

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Jan 31, 2018
Registry last updated
Aug 12, 2024

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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