Background In health care, the use of game-based interventions to increase motivation,
engagement, and overall sustainability of health behaviors is steadily becoming more …

Games for change is a growing research field and studies have shown that these games can
promote positive behaviour change using various persuasive strategies. This paper …

Researchers reference realism in digital games without sufficient specificity. Without clarity
about the dimensions of realism, we cannot assess how and when to aim for a higher …

Background Co-design has increasingly been posited as a useful approach for Indigenous
peoples and other social groups that experience inequities. However, the relatively rapid …

Background Sexual education has become increasingly important as unhealthy sexual
practices and subsequent health risks become more prevalent during adolescence …

Although youth advisory structures (YASs) have proliferated internationally to facilitate the
voice of young people, little is known about the practices of such groups, especially in the …

Introduction: Youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health (SRH) interventions are essential
for the health of adolescents (10–19 years). Co-designing is a participatory approach to …

Despite a robust field of study in healthy romantic relationship education and risk prevention
interventions that employ traditional forms of delivery, the field of digital health interventions …

Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the students' perception of their learning experiences
concerning serious gaming and gamification instructions and determines whether they were …

Background User involvement is widely accepted as key for designing effective applied
games for health. This especially holds true for children and young people as target …