Min Tian, Longsheng Xie, Wei Wei, Yanhua Chen, Jian Tang
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Abstract
Background: The self-management of people living with HIV plays a pivotal role in enhancing their health quality of life. However, the self-management practices within this population are suboptimal. Therefore, it is imperative to reinforce HIV self-management education interventions to improve self-management ability among people living with HIV. The advent of digital educational games presents an unparalleled opportunity for innovative educational methods.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the user experience and acceptability of a digital educational game as a novel health education intervention to support self-management for people living with HIV.
Methods: A mixed-method study with explanatory sequential design was conducted to evaluate the user experience and acceptability of a digital educational game for self-management health education among people living with HIV. Fifty people living with HIV participated in this study and completed a questionnaire to investigate their user experience after playing the game. Nine participants were interviewed face-to-face to evaluate the acceptability of the game. Categorical data are presented as percentages. Qualitative data were analyzed via thematic analysis.
Results: The overall user evaluation of the "Cute Pet Butler" by the 50 participants (28 males and 22females with an average age of 33.64 years) was excellent or good at 90.91%, medium at 8.64%, and poor at 0.45%. The interviewees included 5 males and 4 females, with ages ranging from 23--51 years. After analyzing the interview data, the acceptability evaluation of the "Cute Pet Butler" with five themes were extracted, that are: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, positive user attitudes, the intention of game playing, and modification suggestions.
Conclusion: Cute Pet Butler had a good user experience and acceptance among people living with HIV. These results support further evaluation of its effectiveness as a new method to improve self-management health education interventions for people living with HIV.
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Patient Preference and Adherence is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal that focuses on the growing importance of patient preference and adherence throughout the therapeutic continuum. The journal is characterized by the rapid reporting of reviews, original research, modeling and clinical studies across all therapeutic areas. Patient satisfaction, acceptability, quality of life, compliance, persistence and their role in developing new therapeutic modalities and compounds to optimize clinical outcomes for existing disease states are major areas of interest for the journal.
As of 1st April 2019, Patient Preference and Adherence will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication.
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