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Developing an Injury Prevention Simulation Game to Better Engage Parents in Services -Home Safety Hero

NCT03965377 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2021-12-08

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Summary

This study will test the effectiveness of novel technology-based game to teach parents and parents to be home safety skills. These include the identification of home child injury risks under two conditions (with and without distraction) and how to resolve these risks to better protect preschool children from injuries. Few empirically validated home safety interventions exist and the best ones involve individual home visitors. These and others that use didactic instruction or provision of written material have poor response from low socioeconomic parents who are less literate and more resistant to outsiders entering their homes. The use of a computer game to provide education in this area is being tested for effectiveness and the game's engagement will also be examined.

Given cognitive problems in parents have been linked in the PI's work to child neglect (e.g., poor child supervision), links of performance on the game to cognitive capacities will also be examined in a preliminary way.

Conditions

  • Parenting

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Home Safety Hero Computer Game

Home Safety Hero computer game presents players with virtual rooms in a home where vilians have planted safety risks. It involves the player taking the role of a body guard for a child. It has three phases: 1. Identifying risks in a set of rooms (e.g., burn, falling, suffocation, poisoning); 2. Identifying risks and then selecting a resolution to reduce the risk or eliminate it entirely; and 3. Identifying risk when faced with distractions typical to home environments (e.g., phone ringing, fire engine siren sounds, a moving child).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Penn State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sandra T Azar, PhD · Penn State University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-06
Primary Completion
2022-08-31
Completion
2022-12-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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