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The Impact of a Health Video Game on User-Game Engagement and Dietary Choices

NCT04156919 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 89

Last updated 2023-12-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Pediatric obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. It is a serious problem that is expected to create lifelong health challenges and potentially overwhelm the ability of healthcare providers to manage the consequences. While many factors contribute to pediatric obesity, dietary choices are the leading cause. A key concern is how to inculcate healthy dietary habits early among young children. Over the past 20 years, there has been significant scientific interest in examining the potential learning consequences of playing video games given children's interests in such games. This study investigates the impact of a health video game on children's nutritional knowledge and dietary choices.

Conditions

  • Dietary Habits
  • Nutrition Knowledge

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

fooya!™

fooya!™ is a science/evidence-based AI-enabled neuromodulation and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) technology. fooya!™ has been shown to deliver statistically significant outcomes concerning food choices during randomized-controlled clinical trials conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine's Children's Nutrition Research in the United States of America as well as India. In the game, children make several decisions with split-second timing, such as food choices, destroying bad/unhealthy food robots using the bad foods that are thrown at the player, and saving themselves. If the children collect good/healthy foods, they are in fit-zone for a while, which shields them from bad food robots.

OTHER

WordSearch

We will have an active control group that will play a WordSearch game. The intention is to have the children play a familiar video game through the same modality (IPAD) that is unrelated to diet or lifestyle choices.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tati Siding Primary School

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • FriendsLearn

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Oteng Ntsweng

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-11-12
Primary Completion
2019-11-30
Completion
2019-12-31

Countries

  • Botswana

Study Locations

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