A Digital Sexual Health Intervention for Urban Adolescent and Young Adult Male Emergency Department Patients: User-Centered Design Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescents and young adults frequently present to the emergency department (ED) for medical care and continue to have many unmet sexual health needs. Digital interventions show promise to improve adolescent and young adult sexual health; yet, few interventions focus on male ED patients, despite their infrequent use of contraceptives and rising rates of sexually transmitted infections.

Objective

This paper describes the design and development of Dr. Eric (Emergency Room Interventions to Improve Care), a digital app focused on promoting condom use among sexually active adolescent and young adult male ED patients.

Methods

This study followed 4 phases of app development, which were based on user-centered design and the software development lifecycle. In phase

SUBMITTER: Chernick LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11489791 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature