Published on in Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Jan-Mar

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/23088, first published .
A Web-Based Game for Young Adolescents to Improve Parental Communication and Prevent Unintended Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections (The Secret of Seven Stones): Development and Feasibility Study

A Web-Based Game for Young Adolescents to Improve Parental Communication and Prevent Unintended Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections (The Secret of Seven Stones): Development and Feasibility Study

A Web-Based Game for Young Adolescents to Improve Parental Communication and Prevent Unintended Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections (The Secret of Seven Stones): Development and Feasibility Study

Ross Shegog   1 , BSc, DipND, DipBMC, MPH, PhD ;   Laura Armistead   2 , MPH ;   Christine Markham   1 , PhD ;   Sara Dube   3 , MPH, CHES ;   Hsing-Yi Song   4 , MPH ;   Pooja Chaudhary   1 , MD, MPH ;   Angela Spencer   5 , MPH ;   Melissa Peskin   1 , PhD ;   Diane Santa Maria   6 , RN, MSN, DrPH ;   J Michael Wilkerson   1 , PhD ;   Robert Addy   1 , PhD ;   Susan Tortolero Emery   1 , PhD ;   Jeffery McLaughlin   7 , MA

1 Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Houston, TX, United States

2 Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ, United States

3 The Widen Lab, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States

4 School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States

5 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Washington, DC, United States

6 School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Houston, TX, United States

7 Radiant Digital, LLC, Vienna, VA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Ross Shegog, BSc, DipND, DipBMC, MPH, PhD
  • Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
  • School of Public Health
  • University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
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  • Email: Ross.Shegog@uth.tmc.edu