Designing a Health Screening Tool to Help Young People Communicate with Their General Practitioner

Abstract

Adolescence is an important developmental period for physical, cognitive, social and emotional development when a wide range of health problems and risky healthrelated behaviours may emerge and co-occur. General Practitioners (GPs) are ideally positioned to deliver preventive health and early intervention as part of young people's routine health care. A quick and effective way for GPs to identify areas of concern is through technology-based health screening tools, which are acceptable to young people and facilitate self-disclosure about sensitive topics. Despite these advantages, the rate of using this technology remains low. This is the first study that involves all end users and stakeholde..