Randomized trial of a novel game-based appointment system for a university hospital venereology unit: Study protocol

Background: Chlamydia is the most common reportable sexually transmitted disease (STD) in Norway, and its incidence in the two northernmost counties has been disclosed to be nearly the double of the Norwegian average. The latest publicly available rates showed that 85.6% of the new cases were diagnosed in people under 29 years old. The information and communication technologies are among the most powerful influences in the lives of young people. The Internet can potentially represent a way to educate on sexual health and encourage young people, and especially youth, to be tested for STDs. If hospital websites include an easy and anonymous system for scheduling appointments with the clinic, it is possible that this could lead to an increase in the number of people tested for STDs. Methods: The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of a game-based appointment system on the frequency of consultations at a venereology unit and on the use of an educational web app. An A/B testing methodology is used. Users from the city of Tromsø, in North Norway, will be randomized to one of the two versions of the game-style web app on sexual health at www.sjekkdeg.no. Group A will have access to educational content only, while group B will have, in addition, access to a game-based appointment system with automatic prioritization. After one year of the trial, it will be analyzed if the game-based appointment system increases the number of consultations at the venereology unit and if health professionals deem the system useful. Discussion: This study will explore if facilitating the access to health services for youth through the use of a game-based appointment system integrated in a game-style web app on sexual health education can have an impact on appointment rates

Easterner, Vol. 27, No. 11, January 8, 1976

This issue includes articles about the appointment of Daryl Phillipson as assistant attorney general, budget cutbacks, a request to the Board of Trustee\u27s to acknowledge the American Federation of Teachers\u27 right to represent the entire Eastern faculty, sanctions by the NAIA against the men\u27s basketball team for scheduling a televised game against Washington State University, and the basketball season.https://dc.ewu.edu/student_newspapers/1628/thumbnail.jp

Appointment Games in Fixed-Route Traveling Salesman Problems and the Shapley Value

Starting from her home, a service provider visits several customers, following a predetermined route, and returns home after all customers are visited. The problem is to find a fair allocation of the total cost of this tour among the customers served. A transferable-utility cooperative game can be associated with this cost allocation problem. We introduce a new class of games, which we refer as the fixed-route traveling salesman games with appointments. We study the Shapley Value in this class and show that it is in the core. Our first characterization of the Shapley value involves a property which requires that sponsors do not benefit from mergers, or splitting into a set of sponsors. Our second theorem involves a property which requires that the cost shares of two sponsors who get connected are equally effected. We also show that except for our second theorem, none of our results for appointment games extend to the class of routing games (Potters et al, 1992).fixed-route traveling salesman games, routing games, appointment games, the Shapley value, the core, transferable-utility games, merging and splitting proofness, equal impact, networks, cost allocation.

How We Want To Be Treated! What Clark County African American Patients Want Their Health Providers To Know

Research continues to validate the fact that cultural values and beliefs play a major role in determining the extent to which an individual will engage in healthy behaviors, adhere to medical regimen, and seek care when necessary. A 2000 survey of 950 members of predominately African American churches in Clark County, Nevada (a county which comprises Las Vegas) conducted by the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension found members preferred healthcare providers as a source of information on health-related matters. Yet, research shows that for a variety of reasons, many African Americans do not regularly see a health care professional, and often do not comply with prescribed regimens

Teaching Use Case Modelling Using Fluxx

Most systems analysis texts introduce use case diagrams by discussing systems of which many students have no practical knowledge - university registry or library systems, or perhaps sales or appointment scheduling systems. This leads to students having to imagine a range of possible tasks that may, or may not, be relevant to the system, with the result that the students may end up learning how such a system works rather than how to create a use case model of such a system. An alternative approach, based on experiential learning, is to give the students a task and then get them to create a model of the task they have performed. In this case groups of students were given copies of the card game Fluxx® and asked to first play a few rounds of the game in order to familiarise themselves with the rules, then to develop use case models of the system at various levels of complexity. This paper describes the author's experience of using such an approach with first-year university students from a variety of computer science degree lines, provides some examples of student feedback about this method of teaching

Spartan Daily, March 29, 1978

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