COMPUTER GAME FOR DIABETES EDUCATION

该提案寻求支持，以开发和研究教育视频游戏 for children儿童with diabetes糖尿病. 糖尿病主要由患者管理 耐心的知识和态度是成功的关键。 治疗 第一阶段确定了使用电脑游戏的可行性， 教孩子们糖尿病知识 同时，设计了一个原型游戏， 一个流行的家庭视频游戏系统 第二阶段将扩大这一 制作一个商业化的教育视频游戏原型，并研究其 糖尿病教育的有效性对照试验。 儿童 年龄在10到14岁之间的糖尿病患者将得到这款视频游戏， 个月 研究人员将测量受试者的糖尿病知识， 态度，自我效能，行为和代谢控制使用预测试， 后期测试和六个月的随访。 结果将与 患者不接受干预。 作为对措施的检查， 游戏卡带将不显眼地测量使用情况和玩家的能力 掌握糖尿病游戏策略 研究人员假设 一个适当设计的教育干预，当结合 娱乐质量视频游戏的内在动机，可能会导致 在知识、态度、自我效能、 糖尿病儿童的行为和代谢控制。

This proposal seeks support to develop and study an educational video game for children with diabetes. Diabetes is managed largely by patients themselves; patient knowledge and attitude are critical to the success of treatment. Phase I established the feasibility of using a computer game to teach children about diabetes. Concurrently, a prototype game was designed for a popular home-based video game system. Phase II will expand this prototype into a commercial quality educational video game and study its efficacy in diabetes education in a controlled trial. Children with diabetes, age 10 to 14, will receive the video game to use at home for two months. Researchers will measure subject's knowledge of diabetes, attitudes, self-efficacy, behavior and metabolic control using pre-tests, post-tests and a six-month follow-up. The results will be compared with patients not receiving the intervention. As a check on the measures, the game cartridges will unobtrusively measure usage and the players' ability to master the diabetes-based game strategy. The researchers hypothesize that a properly designed educational intervention, when combined with intrinsic motivations of entertainment quality video games, could lead to significant improvements in the knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, behavior and metabolic control of children with diabetes.