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An Interactive Website to Reduce Sexual Risk Behavior: Process Evaluation of TeensTalkHealth
BACKGROUND: Different theoretical frameworks support the use of interactive websites to promote sexual health. Although several Web-based interventions have been developed to address sexual risk taking among young people, no evaluated interventions have attempted to foster behavior change through mo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4704941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26336157 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/resprot.3440 |
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author | Brady, Sonya S Sieving, Renee E Terveen, Loren G Rosser, BR Simon Kodet, Amy J Rothberg, Vienna D |
author_facet | Brady, Sonya S Sieving, Renee E Terveen, Loren G Rosser, BR Simon Kodet, Amy J Rothberg, Vienna D |
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description | BACKGROUND: Different theoretical frameworks support the use of interactive websites to promote sexual health. Although several Web-based interventions have been developed to address sexual risk taking among young people, no evaluated interventions have attempted to foster behavior change through moderated interaction among a virtual network of adolescents (who remain anonymous to one another) and health professionals. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to conduct a summative process evaluation of TeensTalkHealth, an interactive sexual health website designed to promote condom use and other healthy decision making in the context of romantic and sexual relationships. METHODS: Evaluation data were obtained from 147 adolescents who participated in a feasibility and acceptability study. Video vignettes, teen-friendly articles, and other content served as conversation catalysts between adolescents and health educators on message boards. RESULTS: Adolescents’ perceptions that the website encouraged condom use across a variety of relationship situations were very high. Almost 60% (54/92, 59%) of intervention participants completed two-thirds or more of requested tasks across the 4-month intervention. Adolescents reported high levels of comfort, perceived privacy, ease of website access and use, and perceived credibility of health educators. Potential strategies to enhance engagement and completion of intervention tasks during future implementations of TeensTalkHealth are discussed, including tailoring of content, periodic website chats with health educators and anonymous peers, and greater incorporation of features from popular social networking websites. CONCLUSIONS: TeensTalkHealth is a feasible, acceptable, and promising approach to complement and enhance existing services for youth. |
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spelling | pubmed-47049412016-01-12 An Interactive Website to Reduce Sexual Risk Behavior: Process Evaluation of TeensTalkHealth Brady, Sonya S Sieving, Renee E Terveen, Loren G Rosser, BR Simon Kodet, Amy J Rothberg, Vienna D JMIR Res Protoc Original Paper BACKGROUND: Different theoretical frameworks support the use of interactive websites to promote sexual health. Although several Web-based interventions have been developed to address sexual risk taking among young people, no evaluated interventions have attempted to foster behavior change through moderated interaction among a virtual network of adolescents (who remain anonymous to one another) and health professionals. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to conduct a summative process evaluation of TeensTalkHealth, an interactive sexual health website designed to promote condom use and other healthy decision making in the context of romantic and sexual relationships. METHODS: Evaluation data were obtained from 147 adolescents who participated in a feasibility and acceptability study. Video vignettes, teen-friendly articles, and other content served as conversation catalysts between adolescents and health educators on message boards. RESULTS: Adolescents’ perceptions that the website encouraged condom use across a variety of relationship situations were very high. Almost 60% (54/92, 59%) of intervention participants completed two-thirds or more of requested tasks across the 4-month intervention. Adolescents reported high levels of comfort, perceived privacy, ease of website access and use, and perceived credibility of health educators. Potential strategies to enhance engagement and completion of intervention tasks during future implementations of TeensTalkHealth are discussed, including tailoring of content, periodic website chats with health educators and anonymous peers, and greater incorporation of features from popular social networking websites. CONCLUSIONS: TeensTalkHealth is a feasible, acceptable, and promising approach to complement and enhance existing services for youth. JMIR Publications Inc. 2015-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4704941/ /pubmed/26336157 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/resprot.3440 Text en ©Sonya S Brady, Renee E Sieving, Loren G Terveen, BR Simon Rosser, Amy J Kodet, Vienna D Rothberg. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (http://www.researchprotocols.org), 02.09.2015. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Research Protocols, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.researchprotocols.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Brady, Sonya S Sieving, Renee E Terveen, Loren G Rosser, BR Simon Kodet, Amy J Rothberg, Vienna D An Interactive Website to Reduce Sexual Risk Behavior: Process Evaluation of TeensTalkHealth |
title | An Interactive Website to Reduce Sexual Risk Behavior: Process Evaluation of TeensTalkHealth |
title_full | An Interactive Website to Reduce Sexual Risk Behavior: Process Evaluation of TeensTalkHealth |
title_fullStr | An Interactive Website to Reduce Sexual Risk Behavior: Process Evaluation of TeensTalkHealth |
title_full_unstemmed | An Interactive Website to Reduce Sexual Risk Behavior: Process Evaluation of TeensTalkHealth |
title_short | An Interactive Website to Reduce Sexual Risk Behavior: Process Evaluation of TeensTalkHealth |
title_sort | interactive website to reduce sexual risk behavior: process evaluation of teenstalkhealth |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4704941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26336157 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/resprot.3440 |
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