Abstract
Adolescence is a critical phase of life that establishes future patterns of health-promoting and health-compromising behaviours in a girl. The complications and issues women undergo manifest differently at different stages of their lifespan, emphasising the need to become vigilant and self-reliant towards one’s health at an early age. The need to educate adolescents has been identified by encouraging them to take agency in their reproductive health. However, several countries’ sociocultural and demographic settings still consider discussing such topics as a stigma and taboo. Several government and non-government organisations have taken the initiative to impart knowledge through awareness campaigns and programs. However, the discourse for “behavioural interventions” continues to follow a top-down paternalistic approach with little emphasis on making individuals self-reliant. This calls for reevaluating the current health communication frameworks, bringing diverse perspectives.
The article proposes a social communication framework underpinning psychological theories and concepts to make individuals self-reliant, taking ownership of their well-being. The proposed framework integrates Reflexive and Participatory Consciousness with Hard and Soft Nudges to create Risk Perception. Further, navigate an individual through the Transtheoretical Model or Stages of Change to attain self-goal. The proposed framework can be used as an aid by individuals to become self-reliant towards one’s well-being, with an emphasis on meta-cognitive development and less on monitoring.
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Roy, D., Biswas, U.N. (2023). They Need to Know and Learn – Gamified Social Communication Framework for Adolescent Reproductive Health and Well Being. In: Abdelnour Nocera, J., Kristín Lárusdóttir, M., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14145. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5_73
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