NCT04550065

A Digital Game on Promoting Family Well-being

SMART Family-Link Project: A Digital Game on Promoting Family Well-being

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Advances in information communication technologies (ICT) allow for ICT-assisted health promotion to become more common. Integrating ICT in health promotion has been suggested to offer many advantages compared to traditional approaches to promote family well-being. Research has also shown the positive effects of game-based approaches in enhancing health promotion interventions, especially with children. We will develop and assess a digital family game with theme-based mini-games to enhance family communication and well-being.

Detailed description

With growing emphasis on the development and maintenance of healthy lifestyles, the family role has increasing importance. A family-based health promotion strategy can be instrumental in helping disseminate and reinforce knowledge and behaviours on family well-being and better equip families to protect themselves and promote family well-being amidst the pandemic. This study aims to use a game-based approach to enhance knowledge and behaviours on family well-being. We will conduct quantitative and qualitative evaluation. The findings would provide preliminary evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of such an approach in a family-based context. It would also guide the direction for future health education and awareness trials and related projects and campaigns for health promotion efforts and to help improve family well-being in the Hong Kong community and elsewhere.

Conditions

• Family

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Digital game	A digital family game with theme-based mini games (epidemic prevention, exercise, diet, communication and parenting)

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-01
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2020-09-16
• Last updated: 2021-12-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong