Improving parent-adolescent communication about sexual and reproductive health

项目总结 青春期早期在10-13岁之间，是性发展的关键时期。这是一个时期， 大多数年轻人进入青春期，对身体、人际关系和性行为有了新的疑问。 然而，大多数美国青少年进入青春期早期，无法接触到 包容性全面的性教育，可以帮助他们培养信心和技能 安全地协商新的性体验。全面的性教育是一项行之有效的整体性教育 可帮助防止性传播感染(STI)和意外怀孕的干预措施 促进性健康；这种教育的一个关键组成部分是父母的作用。父母可以提供 在性健康和关系健康问题上得到指导和支持的青少年，但许多父母和 青少年从来不会有关于性的有意义的对话。这些对话可能会让人焦虑，而且 目前的解决方案，如书籍、网站和培训研讨会，无法填补这一空白。其中许多 解决方案很难实施，更重要的是，往往无法帮助父母和他们的孩子建立 他们的沟通技巧。为了让父母和青少年谈论性的话题更平易近人， 青少年健康研究公司正在建设TheTalk：一个全面的、个性化的、对文化敏感的平台 使亲子之间关于性的沟通现代化。The Talk将是一个可定制和自适应的 对话教练，可以指导父母及其青春期的孩子(10-13岁)度过难关 关于性健康和健康的对话。这是教育青少年的理想阶段 开始进入青春期，对性行为变得更好奇。与当前的大多数解决方案不同，TheTalk将使用 在线多媒体方式吸引了一代习惯于连接和 在线学习。The Talk还将为家长和青少年提供定制的多媒体资源 基于青少年的年龄和性别以及父母的价值观和沟通的最大障碍。在……里面 在这个第一阶段的STTR项目中，我们将把TheTalk构建成最低可生存产品(MVP)，并收集最终用户 对可用性、通信功能和感知价值的反馈。目标1：我们将成立以下咨询委员会 青少年和家长为初始平台选择内容，这些内容是包容的、医学上的准确、年龄- 恰如其分，与文化相关，并且非常吸引人。我们将与橡树城实验室合作，创建一款可供测试的 我们的应用程序版本，可根据用户偏好进行定制，并可在多个Web浏览器上使用。目标2： 然后，我们将对30对亲子双方进行一项关于WebApp UI/UX的可用性和可接受性研究 并反复更新设计和内容。这项研究的完成将导致我们MVP的产生和 就设计和内容提供初步反馈，以降低未来在更广泛人群中进行疗效研究的风险。成功 TheTalk的发展有可能帮助父母和青少年克服他们对谈论性的恐惧， 提高青少年的人际关系技能，最终减少性传播感染和意外怀孕。

PROJECT SUMMARY Early adolescence, between the ages of 10-13, is a critical time for sexuality development. It is a period when most young people enter puberty and have new questions about bodies, relationships, and sexual activity. However, the majority of US adolescents enter this early adolescent period without access to the kind of inclusive, comprehensive sex education that could help them develop the confidence and skills they need to safely negotiate new sexual experiences. Comprehensive sex education is a well-established holistic intervention that can help prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies and promote sexual wellbeing; a key component of this education is the role of parents. Parents can provide adolescents with guidance and support on sexual and relationship health issues, yet many parents and adolescents never have meaningful conversations about sex. These conversations can be anxiety-inducing, and current solutions, such as books, websites, and training workshops, are failing to fill this gap. Many of these solutions are difficult to implement and, more importantly, often fail to help both parents and their children to build their communication skills. In order to make parent-adolescent conversations about sex more approachable, Teen Health Research, Inc., is building TheTalk: a comprehensive, personalized, culturally-sensitive platform to modernize parent-adolescent communication about sex. TheTalk will be a customizable and adaptive conversation coach that can guide parents and their young adolescent children (ages 10-13) through difficult conversations regarding sexual health and wellness. This is an ideal stage to educate adolescents as they are starting puberty and becoming more curious about sexuality. Unlike most current solutions, TheTalk will use an online, multimedia approach that is engaging to a generation of teens who are accustomed to connecting and learning online. TheTalk will also deliver customized multimedia resources to both parents and adolescents based on the adolescent’s age and gender and the parent’s values and biggest barriers to communication. In this Phase I STTR project, we will build TheTalk into a Minimally Viable Product (MVP) and collect end-user feedback on usability, communication features, and perceived value. Aim 1: We will form advisory boards of adolescents and parents to select content for the initial platform that is inclusive, medically accurate, age- appropriate, culturally relevant, and highly engaging. We will work with Oak City Labs to create a test-ready version of our app that is customizable by user preference and functional across multiple web browsers. Aim 2: We will then perform a usability and acceptability study regarding webapp UI/UX on 30 parent-adolescent dyads and iteratively update design and content. Completion of this study will result in generation of our MVP and provide initial feedback on design and content to de-risk future efficacy studies in a wider population. Successful development of TheTalk has the potential to help parents and teens overcome their fears of talking about sex, improve adolescent relationship skills, and ultimately reduce STIs and unintended pregnancy.