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AIDS fighter health defense: protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test a game-based intervention to improve adolescents’ AIDS prevention ability

BACKGROUND: Although great progress has been made in the prevention and treatment of AIDS, there are still a considerable number of new infections annually, especially in adolescents. With the advance of technology, game-based education has gradually become an important tool for changing healthy beh...

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Autores principales: Tang, Jian, Chen, Yanhua, Yu, Xingli, Ren, Jianlan, Li, Mei, Luo, Yue, Xie, Hong, Wen, Jing
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8141216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34022835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06161-0
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author Tang, Jian
Chen, Yanhua
Yu, Xingli
Ren, Jianlan
Li, Mei
Luo, Yue
Xie, Hong
Wen, Jing
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Chen, Yanhua
Yu, Xingli
Ren, Jianlan
Li, Mei
Luo, Yue
Xie, Hong
Wen, Jing
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description BACKGROUND: Although great progress has been made in the prevention and treatment of AIDS, there are still a considerable number of new infections annually, especially in adolescents. With the advance of technology, game-based education has gradually become an important tool for changing healthy behaviors among youth. METHODS: A protocol for conducting a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the “AIDS Fighter · Health Defense”, a game-based AIDS education project aimed at improving the ability of adolescents to prevent AIDS. During the four-week intervention, participants will receive: 1) A virus combat game; 2) Goal setting to eliminate HIV; 3) Questions to be answered to be resurrected in the game; 4) Points ranking; 5) Recognition and Rewards. The primary outcomes include changes in participants’ knowledge, stigma attitude, and risk behaviors attitude related to AIDS after four weeks of intervention. The secondary outcomes are the participants’ AIDS-related risk behaviors three and six months after the intervention. DISCUSSION: AIDS Fighter· Health Defense may be an innovative approach to help adolescents improve AIDS prevention capabilities, fill the gap in game-based AIDS prevention education in China, and gain experience of AIDS management. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry: ChiCTR2000040195. Registered 25 November 2020.
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spelling pubmed-81412162021-05-25 AIDS fighter health defense: protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test a game-based intervention to improve adolescents’ AIDS prevention ability Tang, Jian Chen, Yanhua Yu, Xingli Ren, Jianlan Li, Mei Luo, Yue Xie, Hong Wen, Jing BMC Infect Dis Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Although great progress has been made in the prevention and treatment of AIDS, there are still a considerable number of new infections annually, especially in adolescents. With the advance of technology, game-based education has gradually become an important tool for changing healthy behaviors among youth. METHODS: A protocol for conducting a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the “AIDS Fighter · Health Defense”, a game-based AIDS education project aimed at improving the ability of adolescents to prevent AIDS. During the four-week intervention, participants will receive: 1) A virus combat game; 2) Goal setting to eliminate HIV; 3) Questions to be answered to be resurrected in the game; 4) Points ranking; 5) Recognition and Rewards. The primary outcomes include changes in participants’ knowledge, stigma attitude, and risk behaviors attitude related to AIDS after four weeks of intervention. The secondary outcomes are the participants’ AIDS-related risk behaviors three and six months after the intervention. DISCUSSION: AIDS Fighter· Health Defense may be an innovative approach to help adolescents improve AIDS prevention capabilities, fill the gap in game-based AIDS prevention education in China, and gain experience of AIDS management. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry: ChiCTR2000040195. Registered 25 November 2020. BioMed Central 2021-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8141216/ /pubmed/34022835 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06161-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Yu, Xingli
Ren, Jianlan
Li, Mei
Luo, Yue
Xie, Hong
Wen, Jing
AIDS fighter health defense: protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test a game-based intervention to improve adolescents’ AIDS prevention ability
title AIDS fighter health defense: protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test a game-based intervention to improve adolescents’ AIDS prevention ability
title_full AIDS fighter health defense: protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test a game-based intervention to improve adolescents’ AIDS prevention ability
title_fullStr AIDS fighter health defense: protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test a game-based intervention to improve adolescents’ AIDS prevention ability
title_full_unstemmed AIDS fighter health defense: protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test a game-based intervention to improve adolescents’ AIDS prevention ability
title_short AIDS fighter health defense: protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test a game-based intervention to improve adolescents’ AIDS prevention ability
title_sort aids fighter health defense: protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test a game-based intervention to improve adolescents’ aids prevention ability
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8141216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34022835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06161-0
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