Health-E You/Salud iTu: Pre-visit Mobile Health App for Male Adolescents to Promote Adolescent-centered Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare Receipt
Johns Hopkins University
Summary
This study will involve evaluating Health-E You/Salud ìTu™, a web-based, pre-visit mobile app designed to support adolescent male youth and his clinicians in discussing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) topics and care. It will test its efficacy among male patients in clinical settings using a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial design.
Description
Health-E You is a pre-visit, web-based mobile app designed to support an adolescent male youth and his clinician in discussing SRH topics and care. It is shared with an adolescent patient prior to a clinic visit, and contains initial questions that subsequently provide the patient with individually-tailored health information. In addition, the app provides relevant information to the clinician on patients' SRH to optimize the time together as part of the visit. In total, the app takes approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of the Health-E…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 13–21 years
- Sex
- Male
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Assigned male sex at birth * Age 13 to 21 years old * English and/or Spanish as preferred language to read, listen, and converse * Self-reported engagement in vaginal and/or anal sex in the past 12 months * Access to phone or internet for follow-up study activities Exclusion Criteria: * Aged 12 or younger or older than 21 * Primary language other than English or Spanish * Not able to provide informed consent * Unable to communicate due to cognitive, mental, language, or other difficulties * Not sexually active, engaged in oral sex only, or more than 12 months have pass…
Interventions
- OtherHealth-E You app
When clinics are in the intervention condition, all patients presenting for any reason will get a study weblink 24 hours before the visit; walk-ins will get a study link code in clinic. If the participants agree to participate and meet study criteria, the participants will get a survey link and then Health-E You content to complete before the visit. Previously enrolled males will not be enrolled again to maintain the research study's integrity. Thus, participants will only have one opportunity for administration to the Health-E You app. Participants will be considered to have completed the Health-E You app if the participants answer all of the app's initial tailoring questions and receive recommendations for SRH topics to discuss with the clinician. As a technology-based intervention, no direct interactions with interventionists with participants are required.
Location
- Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, Maryland