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Serious Games for Sexual Health

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Program developers and researchers in the sexual health domain have increasingly embraced technological trends as they emerge. With the emergence of serious game applications to impact health behaviors, a natural step for research enquiry will be the investigation of serious games for sexual health education. We invited a panel of sexual health researchers who are working at the intersection of sexual health behavior change and technology applications to comment on the place of serious games in furthering the field of sexual health. The panel grappled with six questions.

Source: Games for Health Journal

DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2014.0139

Authors: Ross Shegog, Katherine Brown, Sheana Bull, John L. Christensen, Kimberly Hieftje, Kristen N. Jozkowski, Michele L. Ybarra

Institutions: Coventry (United Kingdom), Coventry University, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, University of Connecticut, Yale University, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Center for Innovative Public Health Research

Language: English

Topic: Educational Games and Gamification

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1933042298

FWCI: 6.708

Cites: 28

Cited by: 22

Related to: 10