Innovation contests to promote sexual health in china: a qualitative evaluation

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  • Zhang, Wei
    • Other Affiliation: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Project-China, No.2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou 510095, China
  • Schaffer, David
    • Other Affiliation: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Project-China, No.2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou 510095, China
  • Tso, Lai S
    • Other Affiliation: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Project-China, No.2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou 510095, China
  • Tang, Songyuan
    • Other Affiliation: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Project-China, No.2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou 510095, China
  • Tang, Weiming
    • Other Affiliation: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Project-China, No.2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou 510095, China
  • Huang, Shujie
    • Other Affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Dermatology Hospital, No.2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
  • Yang, Bin
    • Other Affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Dermatology Hospital, No.2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
  • Tucker, Joseph D
    • Other Affiliation: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Project-China, No.2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou 510095, China
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  • Abstract Background Innovation contests call on non-experts to help solve problems. While these contests have been used extensively in the private sector to increase engagement between organizations and clients, there is little data on the role of innovation contests to promote health campaigns. We implemented an innovation contest in China to increase sexual health awareness among youth and evaluated community engagement in the contest. Methods The sexual health image contest consisted of an open call for sexual health images, contest promotion activities, judging of entries, and celebrating contributions. Contest promotion activities included in-person and social media feedback, classroom didactics, and community-driven activities. We conducted 19 semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample to ensure a range of participant scores, experts and non-expert participants, submitters and non-submitters. Transcripts of each interview were coded with Atlas.ti and evaluated by three reviewers. Results We identified stages of community engagement in the contest which contributed to public health impact. Community engagement progressed across a continuum from passive, moderate, active, and finally strong engagement. Engagement was a dynamic process that appeared to have little relationship with formally submitting an image to the contest. Among non-expert participants, contest engagement increased knowledge, healthy attitudes, and empowered participants to share ideas about safe sex with others outside of the contest. Among experts who helped organize the contest, the process of implementing the contest fostered multi-sectoral collaboration and re-oriented public health leadership towards more patient-centered public health campaigns. Conclusion The results of this study suggest that innovation contests may be a useful tool for public health promotion by enhancing community engagement and re-orienting health campaigns to make them more patient-centered.
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  • BMC Public Health. 2017 Jan 14;17(1):78
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