Impact of the Mobile Game FightHPV on Cervical Cancer Screening Attendance: Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The wide availability of mobile phones has made it easy to disseminate health-related information and make it accessible. With gamification, mobile apps can nudge people to make informed health choices, including attending cervical cancer screening.

Objective

This matched retrospective cohort study examined the association between exposure to the FightHPV mobile app gamified educational content and having a cervical exam in the following year.

Methods

Women aged 20 to 69 years who signed an electronic consent form after downloading the FightHPV app in 2017 (intervention group) were matched 1:6 with women of the same age and with the same screening history (reference group) in 2015. To estimate the impact of exposure to the FightHPV app, we estimated cumulat

SUBMITTER: Orumaa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9795393 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature