Quantitative evaluation of an innovation contest to enhance a sexual health campaign in China

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  • Zhang, Ye
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, UNC Project-China
    • Other Affiliation: Southern Medical University
  • Tang, Songyuan
    • Other Affiliation: Kunming Medical University
  • Li, Katherine
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, UNC Project-China
  • Tso, Lai S
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, UNC Project-China
  • Bayus, Barry L
    • Affiliation: Kenan-Flagler Business School
  • Glidden, David
    • Other Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
  • Yang, Bin
    • Other Affiliation: Southern Medical University
  • Zheng, Heping
    • Other Affiliation: Southern Medical University
  • Wei, Chongyi
    • Other Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
  • Tucker, Joseph
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, UNC Project-China
  • Tang, Weiming
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, UNC Project-China
    • Other Affiliation: Southern Medical University
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  • Background Crowdsourcing method is an excellent tool for developing tailored interventions to improve sexual health. We evaluated the implementation of an innovation contest for sexual health promotion in China. Methods We organized an innovation contest over three months in 2014 for Chinese individuals < 30 years old to submit images for a sexual health promotion campaign. We solicited entries via social media and in-person events. The winning entry was adapted into a poster and distributed to STD clinics across Guangdong Province. In this study, we evaluated factors associated with images that received higher scores, described the themes of the top five finalists, and evaluated the acceptability of the winning entry using an online survey tool. Results We received 96 image submissions from 76 participants in 10 Chinese provinces. Most participants were youth (< 25 years, 85%) and non-professionals (without expertise in medicine, public health, or media, 88%). Youth were more likely to submit high-scoring entries. Images from professionals in medicine, public health, or media did not have higher scores compared to images from non-professionals. Participants were twice as likely to have learned about the contest through in-person events compared to social media. We adapted and distributed the winning entry to 300 STD clinics in 22 cities over 2 weeks. A total of 8338 people responded to an acceptability survey of the finalist entry. Among them, 79.8% endorsed or strongly endorsed being more willing to undergo STD testing after seeing the poster. Conclusions Innovation contests may be useful for soliciting images as a part of comprehensive sexual health campaigns in low- and middle-income countries.
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  • BMC Infectious Diseases
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  • 19
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  • 1
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  • BMC Infectious Diseases. 2019 Feb 04;19(1):112
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