Electronic educational game for children with type-1 diabetes
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Measuring the effectiveness of an electronic educational game for children with type-1 diabetes.
IRAS ID
231365
Contact name
Charalampos Kyfonidis
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Strathclyde
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
The aim of this study is to examine how an educational electronic game, for children attending Primary 2 to Primary 4 (inclusive - aged 5 to 9) with diabetes type-1, can foster diabetes education within the clinical setting.
Currently, there is no formal diabetes education for children aged 5 to 9 with type-1 diabetes in the West Glasgow ACH Children’s Diabetes Service. For this age group, the clinicians have a one-to-one approach where they talk with the child, during the regular visits, and try to support and guide her/him. We created a novel educational game , for children aged 5 to 9 years with diabetes type-1, to make the education interactive and collaborative.
The main aim of this specific study is to examine how the game that we created can foster diabetes education within the clinical setting. The second objective is to see if our game is engaging, fun and age-appropriate for the children. The last objective is to see how the other stakeholders (Parents and Clinicians) are impacted by the effects of the game.
Children, after the parents' consent and their assent, will participate in an educational session guided by a clinician. The children's interactions with the game are going to be observed by a researcher and be recorded with video cameras.
Parents, clinicians and children will be asked to complete questionnaires and clinicians will be interviewed also. Chidren with their parents consent and their assent will be interviewed and audio recorded at the end of the session. The observations and the recordings will be qualitatively and/or quantitatively analysed by the research team.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 5
REC reference
18/WS/0053
Date of REC Opinion
26 Mar 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion