R01HD109141

Health?e You/Salud ITU: Pre-visit mobile health app for male adolescents to promote adolescent-centered sexual & reproductive healthcare receipt - Abstract

While preventive care guidance recommends primary care providers deliver sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care to male adolescents (ages 12 and older), males’ SRH care receipt is poor. Clinic-based interventions can be valuable SRH promotion tools for adolescents. However, they have mainly focused on pregnancy prevention for females, single topics (STIs, HIV) rather than the recommended SRH care package, or specific male groups (e.g., men who have sex with men) rather than inclusive of the diversity of males encompassing the full range of gender identities, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and risk behaviors.

Computer-based approaches make it easier to consistently provide evidence-based SRH, in multiple languages, tailored to the diverse needs of all adolescents. Using such approaches before the clinic visit can also help overcome providers’ barriers, such as time constraints, to improve SRH care. Yet, we are not aware of any computer-based strategy to promote recommended SRH care for diverse groups of males. Neglecting males in evidence-based SRH care fails to meet their own needs, and compromises their partners’ health.

Health-e You/Salud ITU is a pre-visit, individually tailored, interactive, web-based mobile intervention shown to improve contraceptive knowledge and use among adolescent females 6 months later and prime and extend providers’ ability to deliver individually tailored contraceptive care to female patients. We will adapt the current Health-e You for male adolescents to assess their SRH needs; provide interactive, individually tailored, evidence-based SRH information; support SRH decision-making and visit priorities; and support providers’ ability to individually tailor recommended SRH care. We will then evaluate its acceptability, usability, satisfaction, and efficacy on SRH care receipt and method use among diverse groups of male adolescents presenting for care at school-based health centers (SBHCS), by leveraging the infrastructure of a current PCORI-funded trial with 28 SBHCS in 11 states focused on assigned females sex at birth. It will also support providers in delivering the recommended SRH care package for males.

In this R01 proposal, we propose to (1) adapt Health-e You as a pre-visit, individually tailored, interactive, SRH care tool for use with diverse groups of male adolescents employing a youth-centered health design process with input from an advisory board of male adolescents and providers; (2) ensure its acceptability, usability, and satisfaction among male adolescent patients and providers in SBHCS using an iterative design approach; and (3) test its efficacy to improve sexually active male adolescent patients’ knowledge, self-efficacy, beliefs, and behaviors related to SRH care after the visit and method use 2 months later.

The current proposal would be the first to examine the acceptability, usability, satisfaction, and efficacy of a pre-visit, computer-based intervention to engage sexually active male adolescent patients in SRH care and method use, where currently no such strategy exists.

The Johns Hopkins University

TO CONDUCT AND SUPPORT LABORATORY RESEARCH, CLINICAL TRIALS, AND STUDIES WITH PEOPLE THAT EXPLORE HEALTH PROCESSES. NICHD RESEARCHERS EXAMINE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, BIOLOGIC AND REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTIONS, BEHAVIOR PATTERNS, AND POPULATION DYNAMICS TO PROTECT AND MAINTAIN THE HEALTH OF ALL PEOPLE. TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF DISABILITIES, DISEASES, AND DEFECTS ON THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS. WITH THIS INFORMATION, THE NICHD HOPES TO RESTORE, INCREASE, AND MAXIMIZE THE CAPABILITIES OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY DISEASE AND INJURY. TO SPONSOR TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR SCIENTISTS, DOCTORS, AND RESEARCHERS TO ENSURE THAT NICHD RESEARCH CAN CONTINUE. BY TRAINING THESE PROFESSIONALS IN THE LATEST RESEARCH METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES, THE NICHD WILL BE ABLE TO CONDUCT ITS RESEARCH AND MAKE HEALTH RESEARCH PROGRESS UNTIL ALL CHILDREN, ADULTS, FAMILIES, AND POPULATIONS ENJOY GOOD HEALTH. THE MISSION OF THE NICHD IS TO ENSURE THAT EVERY PERSON IS BORN HEALTHY AND WANTED, THAT WOMEN SUFFER NO HARMFUL EFFECTS FROM REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES, AND THAT ALL CHILDREN HAVE THE CHANCE TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL FOR HEALTHY AND PRODUCTIVE LIVES, FREE FROM DISEASE OR DISABILITY, AND TO ENSURE THE HEALTH, PRODUCTIVITY, INDEPENDENCE, AND WELL-BEING OF ALL PEOPLE THROUGH OPTIMAL REHABILITATION.

93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) [HHS - NIH]

Baltimore, Maryland 212051832 United States

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Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Required) (PA-20-183)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 312% from $775,408 to $3,197,247.