Interactive computer-based interventions for sexual health promotion

一个促进年轻人性健康的网站，和试点在线试验年轻人中的性传播感染和意外怀孕率令人震惊。互联网为解决这一危机提供了令人兴奋的可能性，因为它提供了丰富的性健康信息，可以接触到这么多人。然而，信息本身并不能减少危险行为。我们正在开发一个互动和量身定制的网站，帮助年轻人实现更健康的性生活，为他们提供有关性健康的明智决定的工具。研究团队将与年轻人合作，以确定最佳的网站设计。我们还将开发一个类似的、仅提供信息的网站，以便在未来的实验（随机对照试验）中与定制的交互式网站进行比较。我们将确定在线开展试验的最佳方式，例如如何招募人员，是否为研究提供激励，以及何时进行什么测量。如果这一专门设计的互动式网站行之有效，就可能对性健康不良产生重要影响，因为在线干预的成本很低（开发后）。

A website for sexual health promotion for young people, and pilot online trialThere are alarming rates of sexually transmitted infection and unplanned pregnancy amongst young people. The Internet offers exciting possibilities for tackling this crisis since it offers a wealth of sexual health information and can reach so many people. However, information alone does not reduce risky behaviour. We are developing a website which will be interactive and tailored, helping young people achieve a healthier sex life through giving them the tools to make informed decisions about sexual wellbeing. The research team will work in partnership with young people to decide the best design of website. We will also develop a similar, information-only website to compare with the tailored and interactive website in a future experiment (randomised controlled trial). We will establish the best way to carry out the trial online, for example how to recruit people, whether to give incentives for the research, and what measurements to make and when. If the tailored and interactive website is effective, it could have an important impact upon sexual ill-health since the costs of an online intervention are low (after development).