Gabarron Elia, Serrano J Artur, Fernandez-Luque Luis, Wynn Rolf, Schopf Thomas
NST-Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, N-9038, Tromsø, Norway.
Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2015 Apr 8;15:23. doi: 10.1186/s12911-015-0143-9.
Chlamydia is the most common reportable sexually transmitted disease (STD) in Norway, and its incidence in the two northernmost counties has been disclosed to be nearly the double of the Norwegian average. The latest publicly available rates showed that 85.6% of the new cases were diagnosed in people under 29 years old. The information and communication technologies are among the most powerful influences in the lives of young people. The Internet can potentially represent a way to educate on sexual health and encourage young people, and especially youth, to be tested for STDs. If hospital websites include an easy and anonymous system for scheduling appointments with the clinic, it is possible that this could lead to an increase in the number of people tested for STDs.
The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of a game-based appointment system on the frequency of consultations at a venereology unit and on the use of an educational web app. An A/B testing methodology is used. Users from the city of Tromsø, in North Norway, will be randomized to one of the two versions of the game-style web app on sexual health at www.sjekkdeg.no. Group A will have access to educational content only, while group B will have, in addition, access to a game-based appointment system with automatic prioritization. After one year of the trial, it will be analyzed if the game-based appointment system increases the number of consultations at the venereology unit and if health professionals deem the system useful.
This study will explore if facilitating the access to health services for youth through the use of a game-based appointment system integrated in a game-style web app on sexual health education can have an impact on appointment rates.
The trial is registered at clinicaltrials.org under the identifier ClinicalTrials.gov NCT:02128620.
衣原体感染是挪威报告最多的性传播疾病（STD），该国最北部两个郡的衣原体感染发病率几乎是挪威平均水平的两倍。最新公开数据显示，85.6%的新发病例诊断于29岁以下人群。信息和通信技术对年轻人的生活影响极大。互联网可能是一种开展性健康知识教育并鼓励年轻人（尤其是青少年）进行性传播疾病检测的途径。如果医院网站设有简单且匿名的预约门诊系统，那么这有可能使性传播疾病检测人数增加。
本研究旨在评估基于游戏的预约系统对性病科门诊就诊频率以及一款教育性网络应用程序使用情况的影响。采用A/B测试方法。来自挪威北部特罗姆瑟市的用户将被随机分配至www.sjekkdeg.no网站上两款性健康游戏风格网络应用程序版本之一。A组只能访问教育内容，而B组除教育内容外，还可使用具有自动优先排序功能的基于游戏的预约系统。试验进行一年后，将分析基于游戏的预约系统是否增加了性病科门诊的就诊人数，以及卫生专业人员是否认为该系统有用。
本研究将探讨通过在性健康教育游戏风格网络应用程序中集成基于游戏的预约系统，为年轻人提供便捷的医疗服务，是否会对预约率产生影响。
该试验已在clinicaltrials.org注册，标识符为ClinicalTrials.gov NCT:02128620。
