Improving parent-adolescent communication about sexual and reproductive health

改善父母与青少年有关性健康和生殖健康的沟通

• 批准号: 10819669
• 负责人: Laura M. Widman
• 金额: $ 34.01万
• 依托单位: TEEN HEALTH RESEARCH, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-21 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10819669
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PROJECT SUMMARY Early adolescence, between the ages of 10-13, is a critical time for sexuality development. It is a period when most young people enter puberty and have new questions about bodies, relationships, and sexual activity. However, the majority of US adolescents enter this early adolescent period without access to the kind of inclusive, comprehensive sex education that could help them develop the confidence and skills they need to safely negotiate new sexual experiences. Comprehensive sex education is a well-established holistic intervention that can help prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies and promote sexual wellbeing; a key component of this education is the role of parents. Parents can provide adolescents with guidance and support on sexual and relationship health issues, yet many parents and adolescents never have meaningful conversations about sex. These conversations can be anxiety-inducing, and current solutions, such as books, websites, and training workshops, are failing to fill this gap. Many of these solutions are difficult to implement and, more importantly, often fail to help both parents and their children to build their communication skills. In order to make parent-adolescent conversations about sex more approachable, Teen Health Research, Inc., is building TheTalk: a comprehensive, personalized, culturally-sensitive platform to modernize parent-adolescent communication about sex. TheTalk will be a customizable and adaptive conversation coach that can guide parents and their young adolescent children (ages 10-13) through difficult conversations regarding sexual health and wellness. This is an ideal stage to educate adolescents as they are starting puberty and becoming more curious about sexuality. Unlike most current solutions, TheTalk will use an online, multimedia approach that is engaging to a generation of teens who are accustomed to connecting and learning online. TheTalk will also deliver customized multimedia resources to both parents and adolescents based on the adolescent’s age and gender and the parent’s values and biggest barriers to communication. In this Phase I STTR project, we will build TheTalk into a Minimally Viable Product (MVP) and collect end-user feedback on usability, communication features, and perceived value. Aim 1: We will form advisory boards of adolescents and parents to select content for the initial platform that is inclusive, medically accurate, age- appropriate, culturally relevant, and highly engaging. We will work with Oak City Labs to create a test-ready version of our app that is customizable by user preference and functional across multiple web browsers. Aim 2: We will then perform a usability and acceptability study regarding webapp UI/UX on 30 parent-adolescent dyads and iteratively update design and content. Completion of this study will result in generation of our MVP and provide initial feedback on design and content to de-risk future efficacy studies in a wider population. Successful development of TheTalk has the potential to help parents and teens overcome their fears of talking about sex, improve adolescent relationship skills, and ultimately reduce STIs and unintended pregnancy.

项目摘要 年龄在10-13岁之间的早期青少年是性发展的关键时刻。这是一个时期 大多数年轻人进入青春期，并对身体，人际关系和性活动有新的疑问。 但是，我们大多数青少年在这个早期的青少年时期进入 包容性，全面的性教育，可以帮助他们发展所需的信心和技能 安全谈判新的性经历。全面的性教育是一个完善的整体 可以帮助防止性传播感染（STI）和意外怀孕的干预措施 促进性健康；这种教育的关键组成部分是父母的角色。父母可以提供 青少年在性和关系健康问题方面有指导和支持，但许多父母和 青少年永远不会就性进行有意义的对话。这些对话可能引起焦虑，并且 当前的解决方案（例如书籍，网站和培训研讨会）未能填补这一空白。其中许多 解决方案很难实施，更重要的是，通常无法帮助父母和他们的孩子建立 他们的沟通技巧。为了使有关性的父母对话更平易近人， Teen Health Research，Inc。正在建立Thetalk：一个全面，个性化，对文化敏感的平台 现代化对性的父母沟通的现代化。 thetalk将是一种可自定义的自适应 可以通过困难来指导父母及其年轻的青春期孩子（10-13岁）的对话教练 关于性健康和保健的对话。这是教育青少年的理想阶段 开始青春期，对性变得更加好奇。与大多数当前解决方案不同，Thetalk将使用 在线，多媒体方法正在吸引一代习惯连接和连接的青少年 在线学习。 Thetalk还将为父母和青少年提供定制的多媒体资源 基于青少年的年龄和性别以及父母的价值观以及交流的最大障碍。在 在I阶段ISTTR项目中，我们将建立最小可行的产品（MVP）并收集最终用户 有关可用性，通信功能和感知价值的反馈。目标1：我们将组成 青少年和父母为最初的平台选择内容，该平台具有包容性，医学上的准确，年龄 - 适当，文化相关且高度吸引人。我们将与Oak City Labs合作创建准备测试 我们的应用程序的版本可通过用户偏好自定义，并且可以在多个Web浏览器中实现功能。目标2： 然后，我们将对30个父母的二元组进行有关WebApp UI/UX的可用性和可接受性研究 并迭代地更新设计和内容。这项研究的完成将导致我们的MVP产生 提供有关设计和内容的初步反馈，以在更广泛的人群中脱离风险的未来效率研究。成功的 thetalk的发展有可能帮助父母和青少年克服对谈论性的恐惧， 提高青少年关系技巧，并最终降低性传播感染和意外怀孕。