Pilot Study of a Multilevel Mobile Health App for Substance Use, Sexual Risk Behaviors, and Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Among Youth: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preventing and reducing substance use disorders, sexually transmitted infections (STIs)/HIV, and teen pregnancy, and the associated risk behaviors (ie, substance use and sexual risk behaviors) among youth remain public health priorities in the United States. Equally important is improving the uptake of STI/HIV testing among the youth. Mobile health (mHealth) apps may be a solution to ameliorate these public health concerns; however, few mHealth preventive interventions have demonstrated efficacy in reducing substance use or sexual risk behaviors or improving the uptake of STI/HIV testing among the youth, particularly in clinic settings.

Objective

This small-scale study aimed to examine the feasibility of conducting a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT). We eva

SUBMITTER: Cordova D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7109616 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature