Corrigendum: Adolescents' perceptions and user experiences with a virtual reality-based alcohol prevention tool in Germany: A focus group study.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.

Adolescents' perceptions and user experiences with a virtual reality-based alcohol prevention tool in Germany: A focus group study.

Background: Excessive alcohol consumption is a major public health problem, with substance use early in life contributing to higher levels of use later in life. Virtual reality (VR) is an innovative technology for alcohol prevention among adolescents that could solve the problem of insufficient outreach to the target group of young people. The co-created German simulation is one of the few examples of VR-based alcohol prevention tools and consists of a virtual house party simulation.

LGBTQIA+ Adolescents' Perceptions of Gender Tailoring and Portrayal in a Virtual-Reality-Based Alcohol-Prevention Tool: A Qualitative Interview Study and Thematic Analysis.

Gender-sensitive interventions in alcohol-prevention that target adolescents often lead to binary tailoring for girls and boys. However, increased societal and legal recognition of sexual and gender minorities as well as research with this age group demand a broader understanding of gender. Therefore, the present study addresses the question of how interventions should be further developed to include sexual and gender diversity by exploring LGBTQIA+ adolescents' perceptions of gender portrayal and gender-tailoring using -a virtual-reality simulation for training refusal skills under peer pressure to consume alcohol.

Co-creating Virtual Reality Interventions for Alcohol Prevention: Living Lab vs. Co-design.

Addressing the need for collaborative involvement in health intervention design requires application of processes that researchers and practitioners can apply confidently to actively involve end-users and wider stakeholder groups. Co-creation enables participation by focusing on empowering a range of stakeholders with opportunities to influence the final intervention design. While collaboration with users and stakeholders during intervention design processes are considered vital, clear articulation of procedures and considerations for various co-creation methodologies warrants further research attention.

User Experiences with a Virtual Alcohol Prevention Simulation for Danish Adolescents.

This pilot study explores 31 Danish adolescent user experiences for the newly developed virtual party simulation app-Virtual Reality (VR) FestLab. The main objective of this study was to investigate usability for VR FestLab, which aims to improve alcohol resistance skills for Danish adolescents. A secondary objective was to understand gameplay experiences.

Co-Creating a Virtual Alcohol Prevention Simulation with Young People.

Collaborative knowledge generation and involvement of users is known to improve health promotion intervention development, but research about the roles and perspectives of users in the co-creation process is sparse. This research aimed to study how young people perceived their involvement in a co-creation process focussed on the development of a gamified virtual reality (VR) simulation-VR FestLab. The Living Lab methodology was applied to structure and guide the co-creation process.