Building Skills for Sexual Health Educators

培养性健康教育者的技能

• 批准号: 9138539
• 负责人: REGINA FIRPO-TRIPLETT
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: DFUSION, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-11 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9138539
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Using Streaming Video to Build Micro-Skills for Sexual Health Educators Sexual risk behaviors continue to place adolescents at risk for HIV infection, other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and unintended pregnancy. U.S. adolescents account for nearly 50% of the cases of STIs each year, which is unsurprising given that only 59% of teens report using a condom at last sex. In the effort to reduce teen pregnancy, HIV and STIs a variety of evidence-based interventions and promising curricula are being implemented in schools across the U.S. with sex and/or HIV education mandated in 37 states. Regardless of the curriculum, the quality of the instructor skills to lead the curriculum activitie is vital. Unfortunately, nearly one third of teachers responsible for sexuality education report receiving no training in this area and the vast majority of those who teach sexuality education are not sexuality educators (physical education teachers actually account for the largest number of those providing sexuality education). This Phase I SBIR project will address this critical gap i the training of educators by developing and testing a highly focused micro-skills video library and learning-community (SkillFlix) to build and support the skills sex educators need to lead teen pregnancy prevention and HIV prevention programs effectively. The subscription-based, mobile friendly, site will provide video modeling of critical educator micro-skills in a way that i highly engaging, instructionally sound, and encourages repeat and continued use for reinforcement. When complete, the site will include more than 1,000 video clips, grouped into skill clusters, such as engaging youth in sensitive discussions, managing difficult behaviors, monitoring small group work, creating a safe and inclusive learning environment, that each visually demonstrate a micro-skill in 30 seconds - 2 minutes. Other features include tailored video recommendations, accompanying instructions and printable learning materials, like and comment functions, a learning community that allows user video upload and encourages educators to constructively assess the skills demonstrated in the video. Phase I will test feasibility by: 1) conducting formative research to further understand the needs of educators; 2) developing the content for 50 micro-skills within two skill clusters and producing the associated videos; 3) developing the prototype subscription based web site, including establishing the technology infrastructure; and 4) conducting a pilot evaluation to determine possible impact of the resource on skills with a small number of educators. In phase II the project will complete development of additional videos, add features such as learning groups-moderated groups of educators who can upload their "skills in action" and get reviews and guidance from other educators. Phase II will conclude with a large scale evaluation of the resource in real world settings, in which the resource is provided to teachers nationwide and their skills are evaluated in comparison to a control group of educators.

 描述（由申请人提供）：使用流媒体视频为性健康教育工作者建立微技能性风险行为继续将青少年置于艾滋病毒感染，其他性传播感染（STI）和意外怀孕的风险之中。美国青少年占每年性传播感染病例的近50%，这并不奇怪，因为只有59%的青少年报告在最后一次性行为中使用避孕套。为了减少青少年怀孕，艾滋病毒和性传播感染，美国各地的学校正在实施各种循证干预措施和有前途的课程，37个州规定了性和/或艾滋病毒教育。无论是哪种课程，指导教师领导课程活动的技能质量都至关重要。遗憾的是，近三分之一负责性教育的教师报告说没有接受过这方面的培训，绝大多数教授性教育的教师不是性教育工作者（体育教师实际上在提供性教育的教师中人数最多）。第一阶段SBIR项目将通过开发和测试高度集中的微技能视频库和学习社区（SkillFlix）来解决教育工作者培训中的这一关键差距，以建立和支持性教育工作者有效领导青少年怀孕预防和艾滋病毒预防计划所需的技能。基于订阅，移动的友好的，网站将提供视频建模的关键教育者的微技能的方式，我高度参与，谨慎的声音，并鼓励重复和继续使用的强化。完成后，该网站将包括1,000多个视频剪辑，按技能分组，例如让青年参与敏感讨论，管理困难行为，监测小组工作，创造安全和包容性的学习环境，每个视频剪辑在30秒至2分钟内直观地展示一项微技能。其他功能包括量身定制的视频推荐、随附说明和可打印的学习材料、点赞和评论功能、允许用户视频上传并鼓励教育工作者建设性地评估视频中展示的技能的学习社区。第一阶段将通过以下方式测试可行性：（1）进行形成性研究，以进一步了解教育工作者的需求;（2）为两个技能群组内的50项微技能开发内容，并制作相关录像;（3）开发基于订阅的网站原型，包括建立技术基础设施;以及4）进行试点评估，以确定资源对少数教育工作者技能的可能影响。在第二阶段，该项目将完成其他视频的开发，增加学习小组等功能，这些小组由教育工作者主持，可以上传他们的“行动技能”，并获得其他教育工作者的评论和指导。第二阶段结束时，将在真实的世界环境中对资源进行大规模评估，向全国教师提供资源，并与教育工作者对照组进行技能评估。