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Testing the Effectiveness of Night Shift, a Theory-based Customized Video Game

NCT06063434 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 800

Last updated 2026-05-06

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effect of a video game on the implementation of clinical practice guidelines in trauma triage. The main question it attempts to answer is whether exposure to the game improves compliance with guidelines by emergency medicine physicians working at non-trauma centers in the US. Participants randomized to the intervention condition will be asked to play a customized, theory-based video game for 2 hours immediately after enrollment, and then return to the game for 20 minutes every three months for the next 9 months. Participants in the control condition will receive usual care.

Conditions

  • Trauma Injury
  • Physician's Role

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Night Shift

The player must not only manage the patients who present to the emergency department of the hospital, gaining experience with the consequences of trauma triage, but also solve the mystery of the grandfather, gaining an emotional connection with the character and making the feedback that "Andy" receives more relevant. Embedded within Night Shift 2024 is a mini-game (Graveyard Shift) that contains a series of puzzles that reinforce the lessons of the overarching game: transfer severely injured patients expeditiously.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual education

Standard continuing medical education, including Advanced Trauma Life Support, and the American Board of Emergency Medicine educational modules (e.g., trauma resuscitation).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Deepika Mohan, MD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-11-27
Primary Completion
2025-03-30
Completion
2025-03-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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