'It's your game': An innovative multimedia virtual world to prevent HIV/STI and pregnancy in middle school youth

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 129, Issue , 2007, Pages 983-987

  Shegog, Ross ^a   Markham, Christine ^a   Peskin, Melissa ^a   Dancel, Monica ^a   Coton, Charlie ^a   Tortolero, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV pregnancy prevention; multimedi; youth

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OBSTETRICS; SOFTWARE TESTING; STUDENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER-BASED ACTIVITIES; EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES; HIV/PREGNANCY PREVENTION; INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA; MULTIMEDI; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS; YOUTH;

COMPUTER GAMES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 35748947795     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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