STI Prevention Methods Effectiveness Explorer¶
Specification¶
The full specification below is extracted from Chapter 3: Healthcare Access and Sexual Health.
Type: microsim
**sim-id:** sti-prevention-methods-effectiveness-explorer<br/>
**Library:** Chart.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified
Bloom Taxonomy: Understand (L2)
Bloom Taxonomy Verb: explain, compare, summarize
Learning objective: Students explain and compare the relative risk-reduction level of five evidence-based STI prevention methods without any method being framed as an instruction to act.
Chart type: Horizontal bar chart
Purpose: Show relative risk-reduction level of each prevention method as a factual comparison, not an endorsement
X-axis: Relative risk reduction (Full, Substantial, Partial, Indirect) — plain categorical labels, not a numeric health-risk score
Y-axis: Prevention method (Abstinence, Vaccination, Barrier Methods, Regular Testing, Open Communication)
Interactive features: Hovering a bar reveals a tooltip explaining specifically how that method reduces risk, in the same factual language as the chapter text; clicking a bar pins an expanded infobox below the chart.
Title: "Comparing STI Prevention Methods"
Instructional Rationale: Explaining and comparing methods at a factual level is Understand-level, so a labeled comparison chart with explanatory tooltips is used rather than a decision-making or recommendation tool, keeping the framing informational rather than prescriptive.
Implementation notes: Chart.js horizontal bar chart; categorical x-axis (not numeric) to avoid implying false precision; tooltip and click-to-pin text stored in a JS lookup object.