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Conectar Jugando: Board Games in Rural Elementary Classrooms (6-12 Years Old) to Improve Executive Functions

NCT05267730 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 108

Last updated 2022-03-04

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Summary

The use of board games in classrooms has been increasing in recent years. Education and psychology professionals have found in the board game a way to train some key cognitive processes for good academic development: executive functions. Recent research has obtained promising results using modern board games as a neuroeducational intervention in children and old people (Benzing et al., 2018; Estrada-Plana et al., 2019; Estrada-Plana et al., 2020; Vita-Barrull et al., 2022). However, there is still little evidence of its cognitive and academic benefits in typically developing school-age children. Given that it is a methodology that, due to its dynamism and flexibility, could be adapted to different developmental levels, it has been proposed to study the possible effects on executive functions and academic skills of a classroom intervention based on board games with school children from rural areas of Spain (6-12 years). An experimental group will carry out the game program Conectar Jugando, which will be guided by the teachers themselves, through stable game groups of 3-4 students. On the other hand, a control group will develop the classes in a habitual way without the inclusion of board games and will be compensated at the end of the evaluations. The students of each center will be randomly assigned to the experimental group and the control group.

Conditions

  • Cognitive Change
  • Child Development

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Conectar Jugando Game Program

Modern Board and Card Games as Cognitive Training in Rural Elementary Classrooms

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Atención, Familia, Infancia, Mayores (AFIM21)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Mercurio Distribuciones

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Plan of Industrial Doctorates, AGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Brain In Game scientific-technical service

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-09-30
Primary Completion
2021-12-17
Completion
2021-12-17

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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