Ito Cristina, Marinho Filho Alfeu V, Ito Márcia, Azevedo Marilia M, de Almeida Maurício Amaral
Master Program, State Center for Technological Education "Paula Souza", Brazil.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:1034.
This article presents the preliminary evaluation by dentists, teachers and parents of a serious game for dissemination of public awareness on preschool children's oral health. In this game, the player keeps a victory condition, while your tooth remains whole. Preliminary evaluation was performed in two parts. The first part was a questionnaire designed to evaluate the applicability of this technology and the opinions on the effectiveness of games in education and in oral health promotion. In the second part, the game is presented and an evaluation questionnaire of it is applied. This study had the participation of 115 persons. There was 80% approval which suggested that the game is an alternative for the prevention of dental awareness. Furthermore, the study perceives that teachers can work together with dentists in order to perform dental prevention.
本文介绍了牙医、教师和家长对一款旨在提高公众对学龄前儿童口腔健康意识的严肃游戏的初步评估。在这款游戏中，玩家要保持胜利条件，即牙齿保持完整。初步评估分两部分进行。第一部分是一份问卷，旨在评估这项技术的适用性以及对游戏在教育和口腔健康促进方面有效性的看法。第二部分是展示游戏并应用一份对其的评估问卷。本研究有115人参与。80%的人表示认可，这表明该游戏是预防牙齿相关意识的一种选择。此外，研究认为教师可以与牙医合作进行牙齿预防。
