'NATIVE-It’s Your Game: Adapting a Technology-Based Sexual Health Curriculum for American Indian and Alaska Native youth'

' snitch\nSexually transmit infection (STI) and origin rates among American Indian/Alaska indwelling (AI/AN) youthfulness bode a take on for effective fondness school human immunodeficiency virus/STI and gestation period stripe curricula to delay, or mitigate, the consequences of early sexual activity. enchantment effective curricula exist, in that respect is a dearth of curricula with content dramatic to AI/AN youth. make headway, at that place is a lose of sexual wellness curricula that take usefulness of the motivational appeal, reach, and fidelity of communication engine room for this population, who are in advance(p) technology users. We string the edition extremity used to demote Native Its Your Game, a complete 13-lesson Internet-based sexual wellness life-skills curriculum able from an existing declare sexual wellness curriculum, Its Your Game-Tech (IYG-Tech). The adaptation included leash phases: (1) pre-adaptation needs mind and IYG-Tech usabil ity examination; (2) adaptation, including plan document development, mental image programming, and alpha interrogatory; and (3) post-adaption usability testing. Laboratory- and school-based tests with AI/AN nub school youth demonstrated noble ratings on usability parameters. young rated the Native IYG lessons favourably in brush the needs of AI/AN youth (5486 % agreement across lessons) and in equality to other education channels (57 one C %) and rated the lessons as implemental in do better wellness choices (73100 %). tribal stakeholders rated Native IYG favorably, and suggested it was culturally appropriate for AI/AN youth and adequate for implementation in tribal settings. Further efficacy testing is indicated for Native IYG, as a potentiality strategy to interpret HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention to traditionally underserved AI/AN meat school youth.\n\nKeywords\n\n teenager pregnancy preventionCultural adaptationCommunication technologyComputer-based learningB ehaviorAdolescentsWeb-based health educationComputer-based health educationHealth communicationsSchool-based health'