NCT03416218

Prognosis--A Game-Based Intervention to Improve STEM Skills

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 31 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a game-based intervention (Prognosis) designed to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills among high school-aged students.

Detailed description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usability, feasibility, and acceptability of a game-based intervention (Prognosis) designed to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills among high school-aged students. The research questions are as follows: H1: Students will find Prognosis usable, feasible, and acceptable and recommend continued development and testing of Prognosis. H2: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to perform basic quantitative data skills such as calculating incidence and prevalence. H3: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to observe patterns in data at the neighborhood and city level. H4: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to construct explanations and models describing the organization of systems in the game and how they contribute to health outcomes. H5: After playing Prognosis, students will be able to formulate and test hypotheses for how to best coordinate various city systems and leverage finite resources to reach their target health goal.

Conditions

• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Prognosis	Prognosis will be a single-player 2D, digital simulation game and supporting multimedia website. Players are situated as a major official of Hexacago, and tasks them with managing the city's finances, education levels, and health concerns to lower rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. In the game Prognosis, player dispatches professionals from a variety of fields to different neighborhoods around the city, observing the effects of their resource allocation decisions across multiple systems over many in-game months. The supporting multimedia website will house curriculum and learning tools to support the learning objectives of Prognosis.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-05
• Primary completion: 2019-12-31
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2018-01-31
• Last updated: 2024-08-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States