Adolescents' Perceptions of Gender Aspects in a Virtual-Reality-Based Alcohol-Prevention Tool: A Focus Group Study.

Virtual reality (VR) is an innovative tool for alcohol prevention among adolescents. However, many aspects of virtual simulations for alcohol prevention remained unstudied, and research on opportunities for tailoring such tools to users' gender using avatar-based pathways is lacking. The present study, therefore, explores adolescents' perceptions of gender portrayal and gender tailoring using -a VR simulation for building refusal skills for dealing with peer pressure to consume alcohol.