This feasibility study evaluates acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a digital health game as an intervention supporting tobacco-related health literacy in 10- to 13-year-old early adolescents. One third of the study participants will receive the health game, on third a web page with similar content and one third will act as a control group without intervention.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
151
Health game intervention consists of 20 minutes guided training session with the health game at school and 2 weeks free usage of the health game via own smart phone or tablet computer during free time. The health game includes textual information about the consequences of tobacco use, but also visualized elements that aim at supporting understanding of the information, and motivation and ability to use the information in daily life situations. The visualized content is presented in a format of a game including tasks, rules, goals, rewards and opponents. There are also sound effects and background music included in the game.
Web page intervention consists of 20 minutes guided training session with the web page at school and 2 weeks free usage of the web page via own smart phone or tablet computer during free time. The web page includes textual information about the consequences of tobacco use, but also visualized elements that aim at supporting understanding of the information, and motivation and ability to use the information in daily life situations. The visualized elements are presented with pictures and video clips. These visualized elements do NOT contain game elements (NO activating tasks, rules, goals, rewards or opponents). The video clips contain sound effects, but no background music.
Primary schools (n=6)
Three Cities, Southwest Finland, Finland
Change in anti-smoking self-efficacy
Assessed with Anti-smoking self-efficacy scale (ASSES)
Time frame: At baseline and at 2 weeks
Change in smoking outcome expectations
Assessed with Smoking Outcome Expectation scale (SOES)
Time frame: At baseline and at 2 weeks
Change in attitudes towards tobacco use questionnaire scores
Assessed with a 4 point likert-scale questionnaire
Time frame: At baseline and at 2 weeks
Change in tobacco use-related motives questionnaire scores
Assessed with a 4 point likert-scale questionnaire
Time frame: At baseline and at 2 weeks
Actual use of the intervention
Actual use of the intervention is tracked with log files
Time frame: During 2 weeks period
Self-assessed interest towards the intervention
Assessed with a 4 point likert-scale questionnaire
Time frame: At 2 weeks
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