Gabarron Elia, Schopf Thomas, Serrano J Artur, Fernandez-Luque Luis, Dorronzoro Enrique
NST-Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:1066.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and especially chlamydia is a worrying problem among North-Norwegian youngsters. Gamified web applications should be valued for sexual health education, and thus STDs prevention, for their potential to get users engaged and involved with their healthcare. Aiming to achieve that youngsters become more aware of STDs we have developed "sjekkdeg.no", a gamified web application focused on sexual health targeting North-Norwegian youngsters. Gamification techniques like avatars, achievement-based gifts and social network sharing buttons have been implemented in the site that includes educational content on sexual health and a STDs symptom checker. Preliminary results show that the game-style web app could be useful to encourage users to learn more on sexual health and STDs and thus changing their risky behaviors and preventing sexually transmitted diseases.
性传播疾病（STDs），尤其是衣原体感染，在挪威北部的年轻人中是一个令人担忧的问题。游戏化的网络应用程序因其能让用户参与并关注自身健康护理，在性健康教育以及预防性传播疾病方面具有重要价值。为了让年轻人更加了解性传播疾病，我们开发了“sjekkdeg.no”，这是一款针对挪威北部年轻人、专注于性健康的游戏化网络应用程序。该网站运用了诸如虚拟形象、基于成就的奖励以及社交网络分享按钮等游戏化技术，还包含了性健康方面的教育内容以及一个性传播疾病症状检查器。初步结果表明，这款游戏风格的网络应用程序有助于鼓励用户更多地了解性健康和性传播疾病，从而改变他们的危险行为并预防性传播疾病。
