NCT04881968

EFFECTIVENESS: Hopewell Hospitalist: A Video Game Intervention to Increase Advance Care Planning by Hospitalists

Hopewell Hospitalist: A Video Game Intervention to Increase Advance Care Planning Conversations by Hospitalists With Older Adults

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,261 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Hopewell Hospitalist is a theory-based adventure video game designed to increase the likelihood that a physician will engage in an advance care planning (ACP) conversation with a patient over the age of 65. Drawing on the theory of narrative engagement, players assume the persona of a hospitalist physician and navigate a series of clinical encounters with seriously-ill patients over the age of 65. Players experience the consequences of having (or not having) ACP conversations in a timely fashion. The planned study is a crossover phase III trial testing the effectiveness of providing physicians with a link to a free version of Hopewell Hospitalist as a means for increasing ACP rates measured by ACP billing frequency.

Conditions

• Advance Care Planning

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Hopewell Hospitalist Video Game	Hopewell Hospitalist is a customized theory-based adventure video game that uses narrative engagement to educate physician players on advance care planning to increase physicians' likelihood of engaging in and billing for ACP conversations.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-07-15
• Primary completion: 2021-08-13
• Completion: 2021-08-13
• First posted: 2021-05-11
• Last updated: 2022-02-25
• Results posted: 2022-02-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States