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TAILORED INTERNET-BASED SEXUAL EDUCATION FOR OLDER ADULTS: NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT
Many older adults are sexually active, but ageism fuels the neglect of older adults' sexuality in research and sexual education. The purpose of this study was to (1) assess older adults’ willingness to adopt technology tools to receive innovative, tailored sexual health education via the intern...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766336/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2184 |
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description | Many older adults are sexually active, but ageism fuels the neglect of older adults' sexuality in research and sexual education. The purpose of this study was to (1) assess older adults’ willingness to adopt technology tools to receive innovative, tailored sexual health education via the internet, (2) investigate their sexual health needs, and (3) contribute to development of an assessment tool and tailoring algorithm. Tailoring is a precision approach that matches educational content to users’ needs instead of offering the same suboptimal one-size-fits-all content to everyone. We conducted an online survey using Qualtrics research panels of older adults (N = 836, with equal representation by gender and balanced representation in each 5-year cohort from age 60 to 80+). We found that 30% reported they were likely to try tailored internet-based education for older adults; an additional 34% were unsure. The results establish priority areas in sexual health needs, including behavioral patterns, knowledge gaps, health-related constraints, and attitudinal and communicational issues. These components provide the basis for the tailoring assessment questionnaire. Respondents also rated the personal relevance of 28 educational modules covering sex in later life (e.g., sexual ageism, sex as quality-of-life issue, sex-related communication, body image, health conditions, gender-specific issues, sexual attitudes, broadening sexual definitions and repertoires, sexual adaptations, inhibitions, sex aids/toys/robotics, medications/treatments, orgasm, self-stimulation/masturbation, dating, risk-taking, celibacy, LGBTQIA+, sexual rights, abuse). Statistical relationships between sexual health needs and personally relevant modules contribute to the development of a tailoring algorithm for creating educational bundles matched to older adults’ unique needs. |
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spelling | pubmed-97663362022-12-20 TAILORED INTERNET-BASED SEXUAL EDUCATION FOR OLDER ADULTS: NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT Berdychevsky, Liza Nimrod, Galit Rogers, Wendy Innov Aging Abstracts Many older adults are sexually active, but ageism fuels the neglect of older adults' sexuality in research and sexual education. The purpose of this study was to (1) assess older adults’ willingness to adopt technology tools to receive innovative, tailored sexual health education via the internet, (2) investigate their sexual health needs, and (3) contribute to development of an assessment tool and tailoring algorithm. Tailoring is a precision approach that matches educational content to users’ needs instead of offering the same suboptimal one-size-fits-all content to everyone. We conducted an online survey using Qualtrics research panels of older adults (N = 836, with equal representation by gender and balanced representation in each 5-year cohort from age 60 to 80+). We found that 30% reported they were likely to try tailored internet-based education for older adults; an additional 34% were unsure. The results establish priority areas in sexual health needs, including behavioral patterns, knowledge gaps, health-related constraints, and attitudinal and communicational issues. These components provide the basis for the tailoring assessment questionnaire. Respondents also rated the personal relevance of 28 educational modules covering sex in later life (e.g., sexual ageism, sex as quality-of-life issue, sex-related communication, body image, health conditions, gender-specific issues, sexual attitudes, broadening sexual definitions and repertoires, sexual adaptations, inhibitions, sex aids/toys/robotics, medications/treatments, orgasm, self-stimulation/masturbation, dating, risk-taking, celibacy, LGBTQIA+, sexual rights, abuse). Statistical relationships between sexual health needs and personally relevant modules contribute to the development of a tailoring algorithm for creating educational bundles matched to older adults’ unique needs. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9766336/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2184 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Berdychevsky, Liza Nimrod, Galit Rogers, Wendy TAILORED INTERNET-BASED SEXUAL EDUCATION FOR OLDER ADULTS: NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT |
title | TAILORED INTERNET-BASED SEXUAL EDUCATION FOR OLDER ADULTS: NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT |
title_full | TAILORED INTERNET-BASED SEXUAL EDUCATION FOR OLDER ADULTS: NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT |
title_fullStr | TAILORED INTERNET-BASED SEXUAL EDUCATION FOR OLDER ADULTS: NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT |
title_full_unstemmed | TAILORED INTERNET-BASED SEXUAL EDUCATION FOR OLDER ADULTS: NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT |
title_short | TAILORED INTERNET-BASED SEXUAL EDUCATION FOR OLDER ADULTS: NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT |
title_sort | tailored internet-based sexual education for older adults: needs assessment and algorithm development |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766336/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2184 |
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