The Use of a Game-Based Decision Aid to Educate Pregnant Women about Prenatal Screening: A Randomized Controlled Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This project developed and evaluated the efficacy of a game decision aid among pregnant women about prenatal screening in a randomized controlled study.

Study design

Participants were recruited from an obstetric clinic of an academic urban medical center and randomized (n = 73) to one of two study groups: the control group (n = 39) that used a brochure or the intervention group (n = 34) that also used a game decision aid.

Result

Participants who played the game had higher knowledge scores (m = 21.41, standard deviation [SD] = 1.74) than participants in the control group (m = 19.59; SD = 3.31), p = 0.004. The median time of game playing was 6:43 minutes (range: 2:17-16:44). The groups were similar in frequency of comple

SUBMITTER: Rothwell E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6512317 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature