Are Pediatricians "Game"? Reducing Childhood Obesity by Training Clinicians to Use Motivational Interviewing Through Role-Play Simulations with Avatars.
The results of a feasibility study funded by a National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 grant to assess the potential of using online, avatar-based simulation technology to increase pediatricians' use of motivational interviewing techniques to reduce childhood obesity are promising, with potentially positive implications for individual and public health outcomes.
American Academy of Pediatrics , Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
Linda
L
Radecki
Kognito Interactive , New York, New York.
Ron
R
Goldman
American Academy of Pediatrics , Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
Alison
A
Baker
American Academy of Pediatrics , Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
Jeanne
J
Lindros
Kognito Interactive , New York, New York.
Jenelle
J
Boucher