Designing an intervention to improve sexual health service use among university undergraduate students: a mixed methods study guided by the behaviour change wheel.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:University undergraduate students are within the population at highest risk for acquiring sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancy, and other negative health outcomes. Despite the availability of sexual health services at university health centres, many students delay or avoid seeking care. In this study, we describe how the Behaviour Change Wheel was used as a systematic approach to design an intervention to improve sexual health service use among university undergraduate students. METHODS:This paper describes the intervention development phase of a three-phased, sequential explanatory mixed methods study. Phases one and two included a quantitative and qualitative study that aimed to better understand students' use of sexual health services. In phase three, we fol

SUBMITTER: Cassidy C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6933635 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature