HIV-Prevention Smartphone Game Trial

Tumaini is a scenario-based role-playing game application. Participants will be instructed to engage in a minimum of 10 hours of gameplay over the holiday period each year. The game will automatically collect for analysis data related to participants' in-game behavior, e.g. time spent playing, scores on knowledge-based mini-games, choices made in the narrative game, components to which the player was exposed. The game is designed to: educate players about sexual health and HIV/AIDS; build risk-reduction skills and related self-efficacy for prevention of HIV/STIs and unintended pregnancy; challenge HIV stigma; and promote parent-child dialogue.

Independent gameplay of control game. Total respondent burden: participants will be invited to engage in at least 10 hours of gameplay during each long school holiday (November-December).