Supporting Sexual Health Education by CBO-based Youth Development Professionals

支持社区组织青年发展专业人员的性健康教育

• 批准号: 8314995
• 负责人: Richard Charles Goldsworthy
• 金额: $ 21.23万
• 依托单位: ACADEMIC EDGE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-06 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8314995
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adopted; Adoption; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Child; Client; Communities; Counseling; Decision Making; Development; Education; Educational Activities; Educational workshop; Effectiveness; Epidemiology; Frequencies; Health; Health Educators; Health education; Individual; Internet; Intervention; Lead; Literature; Methods; Modeling; Multimedia; Nonprofit Organizations; Online Systems; Organization and Administration; Outcome; Paper; Parents; Performance; Phase; Physicians; Play; Population; Preparation; Press Releases; Professional Education; Provider; Public Health; Readiness; Recommendation; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Risk Reduction; Role; Sampling; Schools; Self Perception; Services; Sexual Health; Sexuality; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Site; Social Network; Source; Stereotyped Behavior; Surgeon; Technology; Telephone; Testing; Time; Training; Training Support; Travel; United States; Unplanned pregnancy; Validation; Youth; base; community based participatory research; community organizations; design; evidence base; health disparity; improved; innovation; instructor; interest; intervention program; member; outreach; posters; programs; response; role model; sexual relationship; skills; social; sound; tool; usability

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Significance. In the United States, disproportionately high rates of sexually transmitted infection (STI) and unplanned pregnancy among adolescents suggest the continuing need for evidence-based sexuality education. Efforts to address sexual health through traditional educational venues, principally schools, play an important role in targeting this recalcitrant problem; however, there remains a substantial gap between current sexual health understanding, current epidemiological outcomes, and targeted objectives. Other emerging venues appear to offer an opportunity to increase delivery of accurate and appropriate sexual health information and educational activities. Moving beyond traditional educational providers, community-based organizations (CBOs) have been identified as venues with significant potential to promote adolescent sexual health. Within CBOs, youth development professionals (YDP) are important sources of sexuality education for adolescents; however, recent research documents a need for systematic training and accessible resources for YDP and indicates that the YDP themselves desire ongoing education and support. CBO-based YDP are called upon to conduct reactive sexual health education-to respond to questions. They also frequently participate in proactive efforts-conducting workshops and outreach. Moreover, they, and their organizations, have little support in doing so. Innovation. To address the unique opportunity afforded by CBO-based YDP, we propose to extend emerging research, conducted by members of our team, by examining roles CBO-based YDP play in sexual health education, counseling, and support. Based on the results of those research efforts, we will develop and validate a CBO implementation toolkit: a wide ranging set of resources to enhance effective CBO implementation of proactive and reactive sexual health education and counseling. The toolkit will address issues from organizational readiness to YDP education to materials and resources for provision to CBO clients and client- parents. Although the effort will make use of innovative media and technologies-including multimedia, interactivity, social networking, and smart phone compatible delivery-the emphasis, and innovation, is the specific health problem and the holistic, educationally and behaviorally sound, integrated, approach to this problem, with technologies as tools to augment adoption and implementation to the extent that the technologies are accessible by CBO's, the YDPs, and their clients, and where supportive of targeted outcomes. Phase I will extend current YDP research by using community-based participatory research methods with a national sample of YDP from a broad range of organizations, design the overall CBO toolkit, develop a subset of these educational and support tools, and test those materials formatively within single-subject usability sessions and in a summative field trial. Phase II will develop the entire suite of materials and conduct a large- scale trial to validate them prior to widespread dissemination. Our proposed effort will: Specific Aim 1. Improve upon what is known about the role of YDP as sexual health educators by examining their information and skills needs, their understanding of evidence-based sexual health for adolescents, and the sexual health program/intervention needs of their organizations (CBOs). Specific Aim 2. Improve sexual health efforts of CBO-based YDP by developing resources to address: a. Reactive Education: Increase YDP efficacy for evidence-based responses to sexual health questions and increase YDP capacity to use behavioral change messages and interventions. b. Proactive Education: Increase frequency, accuracy, and effectiveness of outreach and educational efforts by YDP; increase YDP awareness of selves as sexual health models. c. Organizational Adoption: Enable CBOs, as organizations, to assess readiness, to assess effectiveness, and to develop a systematic approach to providing evidence-based sexual health programming. The proposed research effort will be an important contribution to the understanding of CBO-based YDP sexual health educational efforts and will also lead to the development and validation of innovative educational and performance support tools in an area where none currently exist.

描述（由申请人提供）：意义。在美国，青少年性传播感染和意外怀孕的比例过高，这表明继续需要循证性教育。通过传统的教育场所，主要是学校，努力解决性健康问题，在解决这一棘手问题方面发挥了重要作用;然而，目前对性健康的理解、目前的流行病学结果和预定目标之间仍存在很大差距。其他新出现的场所似乎提供了一个机会，以增加提供准确和适当的性健康信息和教育活动。超越传统的教育提供者，社区组织已被确定为具有促进青少年性健康的巨大潜力的场所。在社区组织内，青年发展专业人员是青少年性教育的重要来源;然而，最近的研究表明，青年发展专业人员需要系统的培训和可获得的资源，并表明青年发展专业人员本身希望得到持续的教育和支持。以社区组织为基础的青年发展计划被要求进行反应性的性健康教育，以回答问题。他们还经常参加积极主动的工作-举办讲习班和外联活动。此外，他们和他们的组织在这样做时几乎得不到支持。创新为了解决基于CBO的YDP提供的独特机会，我们建议通过研究基于CBO的YDP在性健康教育，咨询和支持中的作用，扩展我们团队成员进行的新兴研究。根据这些研究工作的结果，我们将开发和验证CBO实施工具包：一套广泛的资源，以提高有效的CBO实施主动和被动的性健康教育和咨询。该工具包将解决从组织准备到YDP教育的问题，以及向CBO客户和客户-家长提供的材料和资源。虽然这项工作将利用创新的媒体和技术，包括多媒体，互动性，社交网络和智能手机兼容的交付，重点和创新是具体的健康问题和整体，教育和行为健全，综合的方法来解决这个问题，以技术为工具，以增加采用和实施的程度，这些技术是CBO，YDP，和他们的客户，并在支持有针对性的结果。第一阶段将通过使用基于社区的参与性研究方法，利用来自广泛组织的全国YDP样本，扩展当前的YDP研究，设计整体CBO工具包，开发这些教育和支持工具的子集，并在单一主题中对这些材料进行形式化测试可用性会议和 总结性现场试验第二阶段将开发整套材料，并在广泛传播之前进行大规模试验以验证它们。具体目标1.通过检查他们的信息和技能需求，他们对青少年循证性健康的理解，以及他们组织的性健康计划/干预需求，改善YDP作为性健康教育者的作用。具体目标2。通过开发资源，改善基于社区组织的青年发展方案的性健康工作，以解决：a.反应式教育：提高YDP对性健康问题的循证响应的功效，并提高YDP使用行为改变信息和干预措施的能力。 B.主动教育：提高YDP外展和教育工作的频率、准确性和有效性;提高YDP对自我作为性健康模式的认识。 C.组织采用：使社区组织作为组织能够评估准备情况，评估有效性，并制定系统的方法来提供基于证据的性健康方案。拟议的研究工作将是一个重要的贡献，以社区组织为基础的YDP性健康教育工作的理解，也将导致创新的教育和性能支持工具的开发和验证在一个领域，目前还不存在。

项目成果

Discovering Sexual Health Conversations between Adolescents and Youth Development Professionals.

发现青少年和青年发展专业人士之间的性健康对话。

• DOI: 10.1080/15546128.2015.1009596
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: American journal of sexuality education
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: Gupta,Niodita;Chandak,Aastha;Gilson,Glen;Pelster,AjaKneip;Schober,DanielJ;Goldsworthy,Richard;Baldwin,Kathleen;Fortenberry,JDennis;Fisher,Christopher
• 通讯作者: Fisher,Christopher

A Qualitative Exploration of Community-Based Organization Programs, Resources, and Training to Promote Adolescent Sexual Health.

• DOI: 10.1080/15546128.2015.1091759
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: American journal of sexuality education
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: McCarthy M;Fisher CM;Zhou J;Kneip Pelster AD;Schober D;Baldwin K;Fortenberry J;Goldsworthy R
• 通讯作者: Goldsworthy R