Nwaozuru Ucheoma, Obiezu-Umeh Chisom, Tahlil Kadija M, Gbaja-Biamila Titilola, BeLue Rhonda, Idigbe Ifeoma, Oladele David, Conserve Donaldson, Airhihenbuwa Collins, Xian Hong, Musa Adesola Z, Olusanya Olufunto, Ojo Temitope, Ezechi Oliver, Tucker Joseph D, Iwelunmor Juliet
Department of Implementation Science, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
Department of Medical Social Sciences, Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States.
Front Public Health. 2024 Dec 6;12:1454304. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1454304. eCollection 2024.
Many designathons, hackathons, and similar participatory events suffer from minimal training and support after the events. Responding to this need, we organized a health innovation bootcamp: an intensive, team-based apprenticeship training with research and entrepreneurial rigor among young people in Nigeria to develop HIV self-testing (HIVST) delivery strategies for Nigerian youth. The purpose of this paper was to describe an innovation bootcamp that aimed to develop HIVST delivery strategies for Nigerian youth.
The four-week, in-person innovation bootcamp, informed by youth participatory action research and comprised a series of workshops, took place in Lagos, Nigeria. The goal was to build research and entrepreneurial capacities among young people to develop and implement HIVST strategies. A qualitative content analysis informed by an adapted World Health Organization's HIVST delivery framework explored key elements of the proposed HIVST service delivery strategies developed at the bootcamp.
Twenty participants, aged 18-24 years, from five teams completed the innovation bootcamp. The five teams developed HIV service delivery strategies that included an element of repacking HIVST kits to make them more appealing to young people. Other strategies that emerged included leveraging community engagement platforms (e.g., vocational skills training and youth community events) to promote HIVST, and the use of reward-referral system to encourage HIVST uptake among young people. All strategies included ways to ensure privacy protection for recipients of the HIVST delivery package.
This study demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of the health innovation bootcamp model to create HIVST designed for and led by young people. This suggests a way to build capacity after participatory events to sustain youth-led research, which could have implications for post-designathon training.
许多设计马拉松、黑客马拉松及类似的参与式活动在活动结束后都缺乏足够的培训和支持。为满足这一需求，我们组织了一个健康创新训练营：这是一项针对尼日利亚年轻人的密集型、基于团队的学徒培训，兼具研究和创业的严谨性，旨在为尼日利亚青年制定艾滋病毒自我检测（HIVST）服务提供策略。本文旨在描述一个旨在为尼日利亚青年制定HIVST服务提供策略的创新训练营。
这个为期四周的面对面创新训练营以青年参与式行动研究为指导，由一系列研讨会组成，在尼日利亚拉各斯举行。目标是培养年轻人的研究和创业能力，以制定和实施HIVST策略。采用经改编的世界卫生组织HIVST服务提供框架进行定性内容分析，探讨了训练营中制定的拟议HIVST服务提供策略的关键要素。
来自五个团队的20名年龄在18至24岁之间的参与者完成了创新训练营。这五个团队制定了HIV服务提供策略，其中包括重新包装HIVST检测试剂盒，使其对年轻人更具吸引力。其他出现的策略包括利用社区参与平台（如职业技能培训和青年社区活动）来推广HIVST，以及使用奖励推荐系统来鼓励年轻人接受HIVST检测。所有策略都包括确保对HIVST检测试剂盒接收者进行隐私保护的方法。
本研究证明了健康创新训练营模式对于创建由年轻人设计和主导的HIVST检测的可行性和可接受性。这为在参与式活动后建立能力以维持青年主导的研究提供了一种途径，这可能对设计马拉松后的培训产生影响。
