Guilamo-Ramos Vincent, Lee Jane J, Kantor Leslie M, Levine Deborah S, Baum Sarah, Johnsen Jennifer
Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health, New York University Silver School of Social Work, 15 Washington Place, New York, NY, 10003, USA,
Prev Sci. 2015 Jan;16(1):53-60. doi: 10.1007/s11121-014-0469-z.
Research supports the central role of parents in the sexual health behaviors and outcomes of their adolescent children. Too often, parents and adolescents with the greatest sexual health disparities are difficult to reach and engage in preventative interventions. Online and mobile technologies (OMTs) represent an innovative opportunity to reach large numbers of youth and their parents. However, there is a dearth of information related to the feasibility and acceptability of OMT-delivered family interventions for reaching vulnerable youths--particularly, ethnic minority youths. The current manuscript addresses this gap in the empirical literature by examining the feasibility and acceptability of OMT-based parent-adolescent sexual health interventions for African American and Latino families. Focus groups were conducted with convenience samples of Latino and African Americans from six US cities. Fourteen focus groups (six parents and eight adolescents) with an average of 10-12 participants each provided data for the study. Researchers used inductive thematic analysis to evaluate data. The findings suggest that parents and adolescents were motivated to obtain sexual health information through OMTs due to their accessibility, widespread use, and ability to deliver large quantities of information. However, personalized and trustworthy information was viewed as less attainable through the Internet or similar digital means, presenting a potential barrier to delivering an adolescent sexual health intervention via OMTs. Sexual health interventions delivered through online and mobile mechanisms present a novel opportunity for reaching potentially at-risk ethnic minority adolescents and their parents. Feelings of discomfort surrounding OMT use with parents, generational differences, and parent-adolescent relationship quality must be considered when developing technology-based sexual health interventions for Latino and African American families.
研究支持父母在其青春期子女的性健康行为及结果中所起的核心作用。通常,性健康差异最大的父母和青少年很难接触到并参与预防性干预措施。在线和移动技术(OMTs)为接触大量青少年及其父母提供了一个创新机会。然而,关于通过OMTs提供家庭干预措施以接触弱势青少年——尤其是少数族裔青少年——的可行性和可接受性,相关信息匮乏。当前的论文通过研究针对非裔美国人和拉丁裔家庭的基于OMTs的亲子性健康干预措施的可行性和可接受性,填补了实证文献中的这一空白。对来自美国六个城市的拉丁裔和非裔美国人便利样本进行了焦点小组访谈。14个焦点小组(6个家长组和8个青少年组),每组平均有10 - 12名参与者,为该研究提供了数据。研究人员采用归纳主题分析法来评估数据。研究结果表明,由于OMTs的可及性、广泛使用以及传递大量信息的能力,父母和青少年有动力通过OMTs获取性健康信息。然而,通过互联网或类似数字手段获取个性化且值得信赖的信息被认为较难实现,这成为通过OMTs开展青少年性健康干预的一个潜在障碍。通过在线和移动机制提供性健康干预措施,为接触潜在高危的少数族裔青少年及其父母提供了一个新机会。在为拉丁裔和非裔美国家庭开发基于技术的性健康干预措施时,必须考虑与父母使用OMTs相关的不适感、代际差异以及亲子关系质量等因素。