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（由适用提供）：使用流媒体视频来建立性健康教育者性风险行为的微技能继续使青少年处于艾滋病毒感染，其他性传播感染（STIS）和意外怀孕的风险。美国青少年每年占性传播疾病病例的近50％，这不足为奇，只有59％的青少年报告使用避孕套，这是59％。为了减少青少年怀孕，艾滋病毒和性传播感染正在美国各地的学校中，在37个州要求的性别和/或艾滋病毒教育的学校正在实施各种循证干预措施和承诺课程。无论课程如何，领导课程活动的讲师技能的质量都是至关重要的。不幸的是，几乎有三分之一的教师在该领域没有接受过培训，而教学教育的绝大多数人都不是性教育（体育教师实际上是提供性教育的人中最多的教师）。这个I阶段的SBIR项目将通过开发和测试高度专注的微技能视频图书馆和学习社区（SKILLFLIX）来解决教育工作者的培训，以建立和支持性教育者有效地领导青少年妊娠预防和HIV预防计划所需的技能。基于订阅的移动友好网站将以我高度吸引力，指导性地发挥作用的方式提供关键教育者微技能的视频建模，并鼓励重复并继续使用以加固。完成后，该网站将包括1,000多个视频片段，分组为技能群集，例如让青年参与敏感讨论，管理困难的行为，监视小组工作，创建一个安全且包容的学习环境，每个学习环境都在30秒内视觉上展示了微技能。其他功能包括量身定制的视频建议，参与指导和可打印的学习材料，例如和评论功能，一个学习社区，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所展示的技能。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者的需求； 2）在两个技能簇中开发50个微技能的内容并制作相关的视频； 3）开发基于原型订阅的网站，包括建立技术基础架构； 4）进行试点评估，以确定资源对少数教育工作者的技能的可能影响。在第二阶段中，项目将完成其他视频的开发，添加诸如学习组调整的教育工作者组之类的功能，这些教育工作者可以上传“行动技能”并获得其他教育者的评论和指导。第二阶段将包括对现实世界中资源的大规模评估，其中将资源提供给全国教师，并且与对照组教育者相比，对其技能进行了评估。