Evaluating a game-based randomized experiment to increase melanoma identification among adults living in the U.S

Nick Carcioppolo, Soyoon Kim, Margaret Sanchez, Bingjing Mao, Ekaterina Malova, Ashley Ryan, Di Lun, Clay Ewing and Shasa Hu

Social Science & Medicine, 2022, vol. 310, issue C

Abstract: Although cutaneous melanoma diagnoses are rising, morbidity and mortality can be reduced through early detection. This investigation seeks to improve melanoma identification accuracy, attitudes, and intentions among a lay population by comparing the effectiveness of different melanoma identification training strategies and the effect of real-time decisional feedback on a melanoma identification task. We developed an innovative, game-based approach and hypothesize differences among frequently used melanoma identification training modalities (i.e, the Asymmetry/Border/Color/Diameter [ABCD] rule, the Ugly Duckling Rule [UDS], and a modality that combines them both, ABCDF (where the F stands for ‘funny looking”), and investigate differences in types of immediate feedback on a melanoma identification task.

Keywords: Melanoma prevention; Serious games; Randomized control trial; Tailored feedback (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115281

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