NATIVE-It’s Your Game: Adapting a Technology-Based Sexual Health Curriculum for American Indian and Alaska Native youth

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• 作者：Ross Shegog ; Stephanie Craig Rushing ; Gwenda Gorman…
• 关键词：Teen pregnancy prevention ; Cultural adaptation ; Communication technology ; Computer ; based learning ; Behavior ; Adolescents ; Web ; based health education ; Computer ; based health education ; Health communications ; School ; based health
• 刊名：The Journal of Primary Prevention
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：April 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：38
• 期：1-2
• 页码：27-48
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Health Psychology; Community and Environmental Psychology; Public Health;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-6547
• 卷排序：38

文摘

Sexually transmitted infection (STI) and birth rates among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth indicate a need for effective middle school HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention curricula to delay, or mitigate, the consequences of early sexual activity. While effective curricula exist, there is a dearth of curricula with content salient to AI/AN youth. Further, there is a lack of sexual health curricula that take advantage of the motivational appeal, reach, and fidelity of communication technology for this population, who are sophisticated technology users. We describe the adaptation process used to develop Native It’s Your Game, a stand-alone 13-lesson Internet-based sexual health life-skills curriculum adapted from an existing promising sexual health curriculum, It’s Your Game-Tech (IYG-Tech). The adaptation included three phases: (1) pre-adaptation needs assessment and IYG-Tech usability testing; (2) adaptation, including design document development, prototype programming, and alpha testing; and (3) post-adaption usability testing. Laboratory- and school-based tests with AI/AN middle school youth demonstrated high ratings on usability parameters. Youth rated the Native IYG lessons favorably in meeting the needs of AI/AN youth (54–86 % agreement across lessons) and in comparison to other learning channels (57–100 %) and rated the lessons as helpful in making better health choices (73–100 %). Tribal stakeholders rated Native IYG favorably, and suggested it was culturally appropriate for AI/AN youth and suitable for implementation in tribal settings. Further efficacy testing is indicated for Native IYG, as a potential strategy to deliver HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention to traditionally underserved AI/AN middle school youth.