The Impact of Health Education Transmitted Via Social Media or Text Messaging on Adolescent and Young Adult Risky Sexual Behavior

Jones, Krista; Eathington, Patricia; Baldwin, Kathleen A.; Sipsma, Heather

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“…We found existing systematic reviews on interventions for improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health; however, they were limited in their scope to a particular strategy such as school-based interventions [31], [32], peer-led interventions [33], mass media [34], [35], and youth centers [36]; geographic settings [37], [38]; or limited to trial data only [13], [39]. Hence, we conducted a de novo review for the effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health education and contraceptive availability.…”

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Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Systematic Review of Potential Interventions

Salam

Faqqah

Sajjad

et al. 2016

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Adolescents have special sexual and reproductive health needs (whether or not they are sexually active or married). This review assesses the impact of interventions to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health (including the interventions to prevent female genital mutilation/cutting [FGM/C]) and to prevent intimate violence. Our review findings suggest that sexual and reproductive health education, counseling, and contraceptive provision are effective in increasing sexual knowledge, contraceptive use, and decreasing adolescent pregnancy. Among interventions to prevent FGM/C, community mobilization and female empowerment strategies have the potential to raise awareness of the adverse health consequences of FGM/C and reduce its prevalence; however, there is a need to conduct methodologically rigorous intervention evaluations. There was limited and inconclusive evidence for the effectiveness of interventions to prevent intimate partner violence. Further studies with rigorous designs, longer term follow-up, and standardized and validated measurement instruments are required to maximize comparability of results. Future efforts should be directed toward scaling-up evidence-based interventions to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health in low- and middle-income countries, sustain the impacts over time, and ensure equitable outcomes.

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confidence: 99%

Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Systematic Review of Potential Interventions

Salam

Faqqah

Sajjad

et al. 2016

Journal of Adolescent Health

221

139

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“…In 3D virtual communities, users' identification with and social attraction to the community, also influenced the subsequent sustained use of virtual services (Kim, Lee, & Kang, 2012;Zhang, Ordóñez de Pablos, et al, 2014;Zhang, Zhang, et al, 2014;Zhou, Fang, Vogel, Jin, & Zhang, 2012), Additionally, various indicators of online popularity on SNS profile pages (e.g., number and physical attractiveness of friends) have also been found to influence interpersonal attraction and willingness to develop online friendships (Henderson & Gilding, 2004;Sheer, 2011;Tong et al, 2008;Wang, Walther, & Hancock, 2009). Studies assessing SNSs for dissemination of health messages have also found that active SNS use led to greater behavioral intention, behavioral beliefs, attitude change, and self-efficacy for prevention of health issues such as STDs (Jones, Eathington, Baldwin, & Sipsma, 2014), smoking (Phua, 2013), and anorexia (Syed-Abdul et al, 2013). Further, research has found that active participants in online health com- munities showed greater levels of empathy with other members (Pfeil & Zaphiris, 2007) and increased altruistic sharing (Civan & Pratt, 2007).…”

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Telling stories about breastfeeding through Facebook: The impact of user-generated content (UGC) on pro-breastfeeding attitudes

Jin

Phua

Lee

2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…In July 2015, we developed a set of 52 search terms informed by 3 previous systematic reviews on adolescent sexual health by combining 4 age-targeted terms, “adolescent,” “teen,” “young adult,” and “youth,” with 13 pregnancy prevention terms: “pregnancy prevention,” “sex education,” “sexual negotiation,” “family planning,” “sexual health,” “reproductive health,” “abstinence,” “sexual communication,” “sexual decision making,” “sexuality,” “condom,” “contraception,” and “birth control” [12,16,17]. Each of these 52 terms was searched separately by both authors in the Apple App Store and the Android Google Play store, and the number of results per search term was documented.…”

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A Systematic Review of Apps using Mobile Criteria for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (mCAPP)

Chen¹,

Mangone²

2016

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth

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BackgroundAdolescents in the United States and globally represent a high-risk population for unintended pregnancy, which leads to high social, economic, and health costs. Access to smartphone apps is rapidly increasing among youth, but little is known about the strategies that apps employ to prevent pregnancy among adolescents and young adults. Further, there are no guidelines on best practices for adolescent and young adult pregnancy prevention through mobile apps.ObjectiveThis review developed a preliminary evaluation framework for the assessment of mobile apps for adolescent and young adult pregnancy prevention and used this framework to assess available apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play that targeted adolescents and young adults with family planning and pregnancy prevention support.MethodsWe developed an assessment rubric called Mobile Criteria for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (mCAPP) for data extraction using evidence-based and promising best practices from the literature. mCAPP comprises 4 domains: (1) app characteristics, (2) user interface features, (3) adolescent pregnancy prevention best practices, and (4) general sexual and reproductive health (SRH) features. For inclusion in the review, apps that advertised pregnancy prevention services and explicitly mentioned youth, were in English, and were free were systematically identified in the Apple App Store and Google Play in 2015. Screening, data extraction, and 4 interrater reliability checks were conducted by 2 reviewers. Each app was assessed for 92 facets of the mCAPP checklist.ResultsOur search returned 4043 app descriptions in the Apple App Store (462) and Google Play (3581). After screening for inclusion criteria, 22 unique apps were included in our analysis. Included apps targeted teens in primarily developed countries, and the most common user interface features were clinic and health service locators. While app strengths included provision of SRH education, description of modern contraceptives, and some use of evidence-based adolescent best practices, gaps remain in the implementation of the majority of adolescent best practices and user interface features. Of the 8 best practices for teen pregnancy prevention operationalized through mCAPP, the most commonly implemented best practice was the provision of information on how to use contraceptives to prevent pregnancy (15/22), followed by provision of accurate information on pregnancy risk of sexual behaviors (13/22); information on SRH communication, negotiation, or refusal skills (10/22); and the use of persuasive language around contraceptive use (9/22).ConclusionsThe quality and scope of apps for adolescent pregnancy prevention varies, indicating that developers and researchers may need a supportive framework. mCAPP can help researchers and developers consider mobile-relevant evidence-based best practices for adolescent SRH as they develop teen pregnancy prevention apps. Given the novelty of the mobile approach, further research is needed on the impact of mCAPP criteria via mobile c...

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The Impact of Health Education Transmitted Via Social Media or Text Messaging on Adolescent and Young Adult Risky Sexual Behavior

Cited by 94 publications

References 17 publications

Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Systematic Review of Potential Interventions

Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Systematic Review of Potential Interventions

Telling stories about breastfeeding through Facebook: The impact of user-generated content (UGC) on pro-breastfeeding attitudes

A Systematic Review of Apps using Mobile Criteria for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (mCAPP)

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