根据有针对性的健康行为变化调整游戏化策略:焦点小组的发现
Frederic Ehrler1, Katherine Blondon1,2
1University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland.
Studies in health technology and informatics
|August 23, 2024
概括
游戏化增强了移动健康应用程序,以更好地遵守药物,身体活动和饮食. 根据特定的健康行为量身定制游戏策略是持续用户参与和改善患者结果的关键.
科学领域:
- 数字健康数字健康
- 行为科学 行为科学
- 人与计算机的交互
背景情况:
- 改变生活方式行为对于治疗成功至关重要,但在医疗保健中仍然具有挑战性.
- 移动健康 (mHealth) 应用程序具有潜力,但在用户参与和持续的行为修改方面存在困难.
- 游戏化,即将游戏元素集成到非游戏环境中,被探索为提高移动健康有效性的策略.
研究的目的:
- 调查各种游戏化策略的潜力,以提高用户对mHealth应用程序的参与度.
- 探索游戏化如何能够特别增强对药物,体力活动和饮食改变的坚持.
- 了解用户对不同健康行为中的游戏化元素的偏好.
主要方法:
- 进行了15名参与者的焦点小组.
- 参与者讨论了17种不同的游戏化策略的有效性.
- 讨论的重点是将这些策略应用于mHealth应用程序中的药物坚持,体力活动和饮食.
主要成果:
- 用户对游戏化策略的偏好因目标健康行为而异.
- 对于体力活动来说,喜欢自我监测和挑战等策略,而对于节食来说,喜欢合作.
- 模拟模型,说明长期效益,成为一个特别引人入胜的游戏化概念.
结论:
- 游戏化提供了一种有希望的方法来提高移动健康应用程序的参与度和有效性.
- 个性化游戏化设计,考虑到个体特征和偏好,对于未来的发展至关重要.
- 涉及最终用户的代设计过程对于完善游戏化概念和确保用户长期参与健康行为变化至关重要.
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