在巴巴多斯通过数字健康游戏支持避孕自我护理和生殖赋权:开发和预实施研究我的方法是什么?
Elena Bertozzi1, Clara Bertozzi-Villa2, Erin Sabato3
1Game Design & Development, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, 06518, USA.
Gates open research
|January 28, 2025
概括
我的方法是什么? (WMM) 游戏显示了改善避孕教育和生殖赋权的希望. 医疗保健提供者发现数字健康干预是可以接受和受欢迎的,为未来的随机对照试验提供了信息.
科学领域:
- 数字健康数字健康
- 生殖健康 生殖健康
- 卫生教育卫生教育教育
背景情况:
- 有效的避孕教育对于减少意外怀孕和促进生殖自主性至关重要.
- 数字健康干预,特别是游戏,为自我引导的健康教育提供了可扩展的解决方案.
- 巴巴多斯目前的避孕咨询依赖于传统材料,有可能进行数字增强.
研究的目的:
- 进行"我的方法是什么?"的形成性评估. (WMM) 游戏干预. 游戏干预.
- 评估巴巴多斯的利益相关者对WMM游戏的可接受性,有效性和采用意愿.
- 为WMM游戏进行随机对照试验的设计提供信息.
主要方法:
- 在巴巴多斯的布里奇敦,WMM游戏原型的测试部署.
- 与青年避孕大使,医疗保健提供者和护理学生进行游戏测试和非结构化讨论.
- 收集有关干预措施可接受性,学习有效性和采用意愿的反.
主要成果:
- 该WMM游戏从利益相关方获得了关于可接受性的大部分积极反.
- 建设性的评论导致了游戏设计的修改和改进.
- 评估避孕知识获取的问卷不是有效的.
- 医疗保健专业人员表示,WMM游戏受到好评,并已被接受部署.
结论:
- 该WMM游戏是一个受欢迎和可接受的数字健康工具,用于避孕教育.
- 试点测试为为随机对照试验改进WMM游戏提供了宝贵的见解.
- 计划通过随机对照试验进行进一步的研究,以在医疗保健环境中测试WMM游戏.
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