Designing illustrative social media stories to promote adolescent peer support and healthy sexual behaviors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Adolescent females in the United States continue to have unmet sexual and reproductive healthcare needs. Research shows that interventions incorporating peer support can augment perceived self-efficacy and reinforce healthy behaviors. Yet, few user-centered digital sexual health interventions incorporate peer support, and aim to change perceptions of peer norms and model social skills. The objective of this study was to design and demonstrate the receptivity of adolescent females to illustrated digital social media stories that promote healthy sexual behaviors and peer social support.

Methods

We conducted a three-phase study approved by our Institutional Review Board. In Phase 1, we presented sexually active adolescent female emergency department patients aged 14-1

SUBMITTER: Chernick LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9189520 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature