games for health - sophia hocini - tunnel tail: a new approach to prevention
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Presentation at Games for Health Europe Conference 2014TRANSCRIPT
Tunnel Tail: A New Approach to
Prevention
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Drug and Alcohol Education: The
Problem
• In 2013, 2.2 million U.S. children ages
12-17 were current drug users.
• The 2013 lifetime prevalence of illicit
drug use among 8th-12th graders in the
United States was 35.8%.
Tunnel Tail: Study Design
Short-PlayGroup Long-PlayGroup
Pre-gameplayquestion Pre-Gameplayquestion
One20-minuteplaysession One20-minuteplaysession
Waitatleast4hours
Second20-minuteplaysession
SurveyQuestions1-10 SurveyQuestions1-10
Post-gameplayquestion Post-gameplayquestion
Tunnel Tail: Positive Outcomes
14%
86%
No change
Positive change
86% of the sample exhibited at least one positive
change in responses between the pre- and post-
gameplay questions.
Tunnel Tail: In-Game Dialogue
177
35
30
4
0
50
100
150
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250
Remember Didn't remember
No positive change
Positive change
Nu
mb
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f re
spo
nd
ents
Tunnel Tail was seen as a game rather
than an educational exercise
51
15
36 34
1
33
62
64
18
3831
9
51
84
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
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160
Fun Hard Boring Exciting Educational Addictive Interesting
Short-play Long-play
Num
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ondents
Tunnel Tail: Conclusions
There is great potential in gaming as an alternative
method of health education and drug prevention
More rigorous studies are necessary to further
determine the effectiveness of game apps as drug
prevention tools
References
Johnston, L. D., O’Malley, P. M., Miech, R. A., Bachman, J. G., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2014). Monitoring the Future national results on drug use: 1975-2013: Overview, Key Findings on Adolescent Drug Use. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan. http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/pubs/monographs/mtf-overview2013.pdf
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings, NSDUH Series H-48, HHS Publication No. (SMA) 14-4863. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014. http://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2013SummNatFindDetTables/NationalFindings/NSDUHresults2013.pdf