A Mobile App (MyPeer) Co-Designed With Immigrant Adolescents for Better Sexual and Reproductive Health: Usability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescents require comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education to successfully transition from puberty into adulthood. However, they often experience barriers and challenges while trying to promote their SRH or access SRH services. Such challenges are amplified among youth from migrant backgrounds, who may further be constrained by societal stigmas and cultural taboos regarding SRH. Mobile health interventions have the potential to provide culturally relevant, accessible, and evidence-based SRH educational resources; however, few SRH mobile apps in Canada are co-designed with immigrant youth or meaningfully integrate their voices and lived experiences.

Objective

We aimed to co-design a culturally relevant and evidence-based mobile app with immigr

SUBMITTER: Meherali S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12784138 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature