NCT02610166

Jointly Managing JIA Online: An Internet-based Psycho-educational Game for Children With JIA and Their Parents

Jointly Managing JIA Online: An Internet-based Psycho-educational Game for Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) and Their Parents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 112 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Arthritis in children is a long-term illness and it can make a child's life very difficult. In children 8-11 years old, the child and their family work together to deal with the problems that arthritis can cause. Learning to cope with and manage the problems that come with arthritis can stop it from getting worse. It is important to create programs that teach children and families how to cope with and manage arthritis. This study will develop and test an online game that helps children learn how to better manage their arthritis. The goal of these studies is to test: (1) how easy to use and acceptable the online game is; and (2) if children who play the game feel less pain, have fewer limitations, and a better quality of life compared to children who do not play the game.

Conditions

• Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Game	In addition to standard medical care, children in the experimental group will receive the Match-3 game. The game will be designed for short individual gameplay sessions (as little as a few seconds), once to three times a day, over the course of 8 weeks, involving no more than 15 minutes per day in anticipated screen time. There is no way to "lose" the game. Through a structured series of daily interactions, the player will learn strategies and develop decision-making abilities that will assist with management of their own JIA. The Match 3 concept (similar to the game, Bejeweled) will require the player to successfully match the treatment strategy to the JIA symptom.
OTHER	Usual Care	Children in usual care group receive standard medical care.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-03-01
• Completion: 2019-03-01
• First posted: 2015-11-20
• Last updated: 2019-06-18

Locations

7 sites across 1 country: Canada