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A Gamification Model to Encourage Positive Healthcare Behaviours in Young People with Long Term Conditions

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/sg.1.2.e3,
        author={Andrew S. Wilson and Janet E. McDonagh},
        title={A Gamification Model to Encourage Positive Healthcare Behaviours in Young People with Long Term Conditions},
        journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games},
        volume={1},
        number={2},
        publisher={ICST},
        journal_a={SG},
        year={2014},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.4108/sg.1.2.e3}
    }
    
  • Andrew S. Wilson
    Janet E. McDonagh
    Year: 2014
    A Gamification Model to Encourage Positive Healthcare Behaviours in Young People with Long Term Conditions
    SG
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/sg.1.2.e3
Andrew S. Wilson1,*, Janet E. McDonagh2
  • 1: School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks. Faculty of Technology, Engineering and the Environment. Birmingham City University, Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham. B4 7XG. UK
  • 2: University of Birmingham & Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH UK.
*Contact email: andrew.wilson@bcu.ac.uk

Abstract

Young people living with long term conditions will eventually have to transfer their care to the adult setting. Failure to plan and coordinate this has been associated with poorer health outcomes and disruption to their care. Transition planning encourages both health literacy and health promoting behaviours in an age and developmentally appropriate way. In order to gauge the attainment of these skills the Birmingham Children’s Hospital Adolescent Rheumatology Team (UK) have developed a series of transitional care checklists. This paper focuses on discussing how the application of gamification (using game mechanics in non-game contexts) to these checklists could improve the engagement of young people in managing their self-care and provide a mechanism for doctors to quantifying the acquisition of these skills.

Received
2013-12-11
Accepted
2014-03-05
Published
2014-05-22
Publisher
ICST
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/sg.1.2.e3

Copyright © 2014 Wilson and McDonagh, licensed to ICST. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited

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