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HIV-Prevention Smartphone Game Trial

NCT04437667 · Status: SUSPENDED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2025-10-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This project, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, will test the efficacy of an electronic game to prevent HIV among African adolescents (aged 12-17), delivered via inexpensive Android smartphones. This study involves a sample of 912 young people and 500 of their parents in Kenya's former Nyanza province, where 11.4% of young women and 3% of men ages 15-24 are HIV-infected. This study will be carried out by Emory University and the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Tumaini Mobile Phone Game

Tumaini is a scenario-based role-playing game application. Participants will be instructed to engage in a minimum of 10 hours of gameplay over the holiday period each year. The game will automatically collect for analysis data related to participants' in-game behavior, e.g. time spent playing, scores on knowledge-based mini-games, choices made in the narrative game, components to which the player was exposed. The game is designed to: educate players about sexual health and HIV/AIDS; build risk-reduction skills and related self-efficacy for prevention of HIV/STIs and unintended pregnancy; challenge HIV stigma; and promote parent-child dialogue.

BEHAVIORAL

Control Mobile Phone Game

Independent gameplay of control game. Total respondent burden: participants will be invited to engage in at least 10 hours of gameplay during each long school holiday (November-December).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Kenya Medical Research Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • Emory University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kate Winskell, PhD · Emory University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-12
Primary Completion
2028-08-31
Completion
2028-08-31

Countries

  • Kenya

Study Locations

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Diseases

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