Title
Educational Innovation: Playful learning for arbovirus control
Date Issued
01 December 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abstract
The arboviroris, are diseases transmitted by arthropods (vector insects), they present a habitual clinic of fever, joint, hemorrhagic and neurological symptoms. The most important ones in public health are Zika, dengue and chikungunya, and they are transmitted to people mainly through the bite of an Aedes species mosquito. To resolve the lack of information in the young population for the control and prevention of these vector diseases, it is proposed to use new pedagogical strategies and recreational technologies, such as video games, for an educational innovation that promotes learning. A descriptive cross-sectional cohort investigation was conducted in 5th and 6th grade schoolchildren in three primary schools in the capital of the Republic of Peru. The sample consisted of a total of 288 schoolchildren and was divided into four (4) groups of 6 children each for the application of educational innovation, assigned as: (ETE), (CIE 1), (CIE 2) and (CIE 3). The evaluation of the knowledge, habits and acceptance of the methods was carried out before and after the intervention, being measured by means of surveys. Consequently, after the average post-intervention results, it was concluded that the uptake of knowledge and generation of habits were higher for the groups that used video games as a recreational educational innovation, being the interactive video game "Pica el Aedes", the one that obtained the higher percentage of learning. However, the interactive video game "Pueblo Pitanga, enemigos silenciosos" was the one that obtained the greatest acceptance from schoolchildren.
Start page
708
End page
716
Volume
61
Issue
4
Language
Spanish
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía)
Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85123993053
Source
Boletin de Malariologia y Salud Ambiental
ISSN of the container
16904648
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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