A Serious Game as a Strategy for Health Promotion in Combating Drug Misuse
Keywords:
Health Promotion, Games, Experimental, Drug-Seeking BehaviorAbstract
Aims: Many different approaches have been applied to mitigate the problem of drug abuse by young people and adolescents; all of them are based on the negative effects of its consumption. But what we have noticed is that this type of strategy is far from assertiveness among teenagers. So the strategy reported here investigates adolescent behavior and young school age in order to identify the need for intervention to curb not only the possible use, but also to identify the understanding of the harmful effects of consumption of various types of drugs. Materials and methods: We used the qualitative method of assessing the questionnaire with children and adolescents using the game, thereby assess communicability together with a method for promoting the quantitative analysis presented in this paper. Results: The information collected by the game cooperates to the improvement of traditional approaches to enforcement and combating drug abuse. Conclusion: The method of using digital games has closer involvement of children and adolescents and helps traditional approaches to increase the effectiveness of health promotion at schools.
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