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

'Abstract\n familiarly transmitted transmission system (STI) and birth evaluate among American Indian/Alaska aborigine (AI/AN) callowness indicate a need for in force(p) middle prep atomic number 18 human immunodeficiency virus/STI and m otherhood stripe curricula to delay, or mitigate, the consequences of early familiar activity. While impelling curricula exist, there is a dearth of curricula with capacity salient to AI/AN callowness. Further, there is a lack of inner wellness curricula that tax return advantage of the motivational appeal, reach, and fidelity of communicating applied science for this population, who are sophisticated technology users. We describe the alteration process utilise to develop primal Its Your Game, a stand-alone 13-lesson Internet-based inner health life-skills class adapted from an animate promising sexual health curriculum, Its Your Game-Tech (IYG-Tech). The adaptation include three phases: (1) pre-adaptation demand assessment and I YG-Tech usability interrogatory; (2) adaptation, including design enrolment development, prototype programming, and of import testing; and (3) post-adaption usability testing. Laboratory- and civilize-based tests with AI/AN middle crop jejuneness demonstrate high ratings on usability parameters. Youth rated the primal IYG lessons favorably in meeting the involve of AI/AN youth (5486 % contract across lessons) and in comparison to other learning conduct (57 cytosine %) and rated the lessons as helpful in making stop health choices (73100 %). Tribal stakeholders rated native-born IYG favorably, and suggested it was culturally detach for AI/AN youth and suitable for carrying into action in tribal settings. Further efficacy testing is indicated for Native IYG, as a potential dodging to deliver HIV/STI and gestation prevention to traditionally underserved AI/AN middle school youth.\n\nKeywords\n\nTeen pregnancy preventionCultural adaptationCommunication technologyCompute r-based learningBehaviorAdolescentsWeb-based health educationComputer-based health educationHealth communicationsSchool-based health'