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Serious Games for Education (189) Games and Gamification for Health (779) Serious Games for Health and Medicine (803) Online Dating, Sexual Health Behavior (191) Sex education, sex behavior and pregnancy/STD prevention for Adolescents (130) Gamification (155) Risky Sexual Behavior (175) Game Design and Efficacy of Game Elements (95) e-Learning and Digital Medical Education (906)

Published on in Vol 9, No 4 (2021): Oct-Dec

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/19614, first published .
Gamifying Sexual Education for Adolescents in a Low-Tech Setting: Quasi-Experimental Design Study

Gamifying Sexual Education for Adolescents in a Low-Tech Setting: Quasi-Experimental Design Study

Gamifying Sexual Education for Adolescents in a Low-Tech Setting: Quasi-Experimental Design Study

Authors of this article:

Hussein Haruna1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Kingsley Okoye1 Author Orcid Image ;   Zamzami Zainuddin2 Author Orcid Image ;   Xiao Hu2 Author Orcid Image ;   Samuel Chu2 Author Orcid Image ;   Samira Hosseini1, 3 Author Orcid Image
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