Contest characteristics
| First author | Country | Target population | School-based | Task assigned to contest entrants | Health condition or behaviour of interest | Contest submission | Monetary prizes | Number of submissions | Received corporate support | Judging process | Health Professionals as Judges | Contest engagement metrics | Reported ethics approval |
| (No author)31 | USA | Young people | Develop HPM | Sexually transmitted infections | Story | X | Unspecified | X | Judging panel | X | Unspecified | ||
| (No author)31 | USA | Young people | Develop HPM | Sexually transmitted infections | Video | X | Unspecified | X | Judging panel | X | Unspecified | ||
| Beres et al46 | Swaziland, Namibia, Kenya, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Senegal | Young people | Develop HPM | Sexually transmitted infections | Story | 11 354 | X | Judging panel | X | No of submissions | X | ||
| Catallozzi et al28 | Australia | General population | Develop HPM | Sexually transmitted infections | Video | X | 69 | X | Crowd voted & judging panel | X | No of submissions | X | |
| Cella et al32 | USA | Young people | X | Develop HPM | Smoking | Song | X | Unspecified | Judging panel | X | No of contest observers | ||
| Chansrichavala et al45 | Thailand | General population | Develop HPM | Melioidosis | Video | X | 45 | Judging panel | X | No of online views of top-ranked video | |||
| Costello and Stolovitzky6 | Worldwide | Scientific researchers | Improve predictive clinical models | Breast cancer | Clinical algorithm | 52 | Objective indicators & judges | No of submission | |||||
| Costello and Stolovitzky6 | Worldwide | Scientific researchers | Improve predictive clinical models & protocols | Genetic diseases & conditions | Clinical algorithms & protocols | X | 23 | X | Objective indicators & judges | X | No of submissions | ||
| Croghan et al33 | USA | Young people | X | Develop HPM | Smoking | Video, audio clip or poster | X | 172 | X | Judging panel | No of participants and submissions | X | |
| Davis34 | USA | Young people | X | Develop HPM | Smoking | Poster | X | Unspecified | Judging panel | X | Unspecified | ||
| Dawson et al35 | USA | Young people | Develop HPM | Skin cancer | Video | X | 55 | Judging panel | X | No of submissions and online views of top-ranked video | |||
| Hatfield et al29 | USA | School | Develop HPM | Obesity | Physical activity programmes | X | 427 | X | Judging panel | X | No of video views, submissions and e- postcard distribution | X | |
| Hall et al36 | USA | Service delivery organisations | Develop HPM | Skin cancer | Photo | 2198 | Crowd voted and judging panel | X | No of photo submissions | X | |||
| Hamm et al37 | USA | General population | Develop HPM | Unintentional poisoning | Video | Unspecified | Crowd voted | No of video views | |||||
| Hlade38 | Slovenia | Patients with osteoporosis | Develop HPM | Osteoporosis | Recipe and photo | Unspecified | Unspecified | Unspecified | |||||
| Inglés-Camat et al49 | Worldwide | Young people | X | Develop HPM | Cancer and healthy living practices | Multimedia application | 3 | Judging panel | X | Unspecified | |||
| Keller48 | Uganda | Young people | Develop HPM | Sexually transmitted infections | Song | 80 | Judging panel | Unspecified | |||||
| Küffner et al50 | Worldwide | Scientific researchers | Improve predictive clinical models | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Clinical algorithm | X | 37 | X | Objective indicators and judges | No of contest registrants | X | ||
| Lakhani et al52 | Worldwide | Scientific researchers | Improve models of computational data analysis | Immunogenomics | Clinical algorithm | X | 122 | Objective indicators and judges | X | No of contest submissions | |||
| Mathews et al53 | USA | General population | Develop HPM | Sexually transmitted infections | Story | X | 39 | Crowd voted and judging panel | X | No of contest submissions and social media visits | X | ||
| Merchant et al5 | Worldwide | General population | Develop HPM | Cardiac arrest | Poster | X | 119 | X | Crowd voted and judging panel | X | No of contest website views, votes and behavioural pledges | ||
| Morton et al39 | USA | Young people | X | Develop HPM | Nutrition and obesity | Poster | X | 76 | X | Judging panel | X | No of contest submissions | |
| Rogers et al40 | USA | Young people | Develop HPM | Type 2 diabetes | Story | X | 20 | X | Judging panel | No of contest submissions | |||
| Sczersputowski41 | USA | Young people | X | Develop HPM | Suicide and mental illness | Video | X | 371 | X | Judging panel | No of video downloads and educational materials | ||
| Shearer et al42 | Australia | General population | Develop HPM | Sexually transmitted infections | Video | X | 113 | X | Crowd voted and judging panel | Unspecified | X | ||
| Zhang et al43 | China, Hong Kong and Taiwan | Service delivery organisations | Develop HPM | Sexually transmitted infections | Video | 7 | Judging panel | X | No of video submission | X | |||
| Tang et al44 | China, Hong Kong and Taiwan | Service delivery organisation | Develop HPM | Sexually transmitted infections | Video | 11 | Judging panel | X | No of video submission | X | |||
| Weimann51 | Worldwide | Young people | Develop HPM | Hearing loss | Video | Unspecified | Unspecified | Unspecified | |||||
| Zhang et al43 | China | General population | Develop HPM | Sexually transmitted infections | Photo | 96 | Crowd voted and judging panel | No of photo submissions | X |
‘Young people’ defined as individuals between 10 and 24 years.