NCT01807806

Safety and Effectiveness Study: Role Playing Game for Friends and Family of Service Members

Safety and Effectiveness Study: Interactive Game-Based System for Psychological Health Education

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 65 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Southern California · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 86 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project is a partnership between Soar Technology, the University of Southern California (USC) Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families (CIR) and the USC Creative Media and Behavioral Health Center (CM\&BHC) to conduct a Safety and Effectiveness Study (SES) for an educational role-playing game developed by Soar Technology, Inc. The purpose of the intervention to be delivered by Soar Technology is to educate families and friends with the ultimate goal of empowering them to have a conversation with the veteran/service member about readjustment issues. The study will assess the safety and effectiveness of the provided game using personal interviews, play testing, and surveys. The game playing experience is hypothesized to be safe and effective with respect to having conversations with veterans/service members following deployment.

Detailed description

The intervention is a multi-scenario role playing simulation. Participants view the scenario and answer questions about what has been displayed as typical for post deployment service members. Participants receive immediate feedback with respect to expectations set by simulation developers.

Conditions

• Communication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Role-playing game	Eligible participants will be invited to engage with a role-playing game for 30 minutes. The role play presents situations where a service member/veteran interacts with family or friends.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2013-03-08
• Last updated: 2017-05-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States