Text Messaging for Abstinence and HIV Risk Prevention

描述(由申请者提供)：411关于安全文本：基于手机的城市黑人青年男性艾滋病毒预防的提案是一项专门旨在响应RFA-07-002号召的提案，该提案呼吁“开发或测试针对现实世界社区环境的干预措施，识别研究设计和数据分析中的特定文化因素。”我们将把非中心文化元素与青年手机文化融合在一起，为16-20岁的黑人城市青年男性开发和试点基于创新技术的艾滋病毒预防计划。关于安全短信的411将使用手机发送与文化相关的、量身定做的激励和教育材料，以促进节欲、增加一夫一妻制和增加避孕套的使用。我们将通过这个项目实现的具体目标包括：(1)审查以前分别从2218名黑人城市青年那里收集的现有数据，分别在性行为和禁欲的两次深入调查期间收集，以便为文化上合适的、理论上有框架的艾滋病毒预防信息设计原型，这些信息可以使用手机技术传递；(2)对宾夕法尼亚州费城的黑人城市青年进行六个焦点小组，使用迭代过程获得对这些初始原型的反馈和反应；(3)利用现有数据和新收集的焦点小组数据来提炼原型，设计通用的健康信息(用于对照)和理论和文化框架的艾滋病毒预防文本信息；(4)对60名16-20岁的城市黑人青年男子进行手机干预的可接受性和可行性进行试点测试；(5)试点测试以手机为基础的艾滋病毒预防干预措施在增加禁欲或延迟性行为、一夫一妻制和使用避孕套方面的有效性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 411 on Safe Text: Cell Phone Based-HIV Prevention for Black Urban Young Men is a proposal specifically intended to respond to the RFA-07-002 call to 'Develop or test interventions for real world community settings, identifying specific cultural factors in research design and data analysis.' We will blend Afrocentric cultural elements with youth cell phone culture to develop and pilot test an innovative technology based HIV prevention program for Black urban young men aged 16-20. The 411 on Safe Text will use cell- phones to deliver culturally relevant, tailored, motivational and educational material to promote abstinence, increased monogamy and increased condom use. The Specific Aims we will achieve through this project include: (1) To review existing data previously gathered from 2218 Black urban youth during two in-depth investigations of sexuality and abstinence, respectively, in order to craft prototypes for culturally appropriate, theoretically framed HIV prevention messages that can be delivered using cell-phone technology; (2) To conduct six focus groups with Black urban young men in Philadelphia, PA, using an iterative process to garner feedback and reactions to these initial prototypes; (3) To utilize existing data and newly gathered focus group data to refine prototypes and design generic health messages (for controls) and theoretically and culturally framed HIV prevention text messages; streaming video; and short quizzes that will be delivered via cell phones (for intervention participants); (4) To pilot test the acceptability and feasibility of cell-phone based interventions with 60 Black urban young men aged 16-20; and (5) To pilot test the efficacy of the cell-phone based HIV prevention intervention in increasing abstinence or delaying sexual activity; monogamy; and use of condoms.