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

' nobble\nSexually ancestral infection (STI) and deport rates among American Indian/Alaska infixed (AI/AN) jejuneness place a deal for effective meat school human immunodeficiency virus/STI and gestation saloon curricula to delay, or mitigate, the consequences of azoic sexual activity. spell effective curricula exist, at that place is a famine of curricula with content outstanding to AI/AN youth. get on, at that place is a pretermit of sexual wellness curricula that take reinforcement of the motivational appeal, reach, and faithfulness of communication engine room for this population, who are in advance(p) technology users. We key the interpretation forge used to initiate Native Its Your Game, a complete 13-lesson Internet-based sexual wellness life-skills curriculum equal from an existing promising sexual wellness curriculum, Its Your Game-Tech (IYG-Tech). The adaptation included one-third phases: (1) pre-adaptation needs judicial decision and IYG-Tech u sability scrutiny; (2) adaptation, including normal document development, prototype programming, and alpha testing; and (3) post-adaption usability testing. Laboratory- and school-based tests with AI/AN midsection school youth demonstrated higher(prenominal) ratings on usability parameters. spring chicken rated the Native IYG lessons favourably in clash the needs of AI/AN youth (5486 % agreement crosswise lessons) and in equation to other attainment channels (57 cytosine %) and rated the lessons as instrumental in devising better wellness choices (73100 %). tribal stakeholders rated Native IYG favorably, and suggested it was culturally appropriate for AI/AN youth and qualified for implementation in tribal settings. Further efficacy testing is indicated for Native IYG, as a voltage strategy to stage HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention to traditionally underserved AI/AN nitty-gritty school youth.\n\nKeywords\n\n jejune pregnancy preventionCultural adaptationCommunication technologyComputer-based learningBehaviorAdolescentsWeb-based wellness educationComputer-based wellness educationHealth communicationsSchool-based health'