Acceptability of an Adapted HIV Prevention Intervention for Native American Adolescents
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2018
Publication Title
AIDS Education and Prevention
Volume
30
Issue
1
First page number:
72
Last page number:
84
Abstract
Relatively few HIV evidence-based interventions (EBIs) among Native Americans have been developed, adapted, evaluated, and/or published in the scientific literature. An adolescent HIV EBI was adapted in three phases: (1) securing input from a Native American Advisory Board; (2) modifying the EBI to be more consistent with Native American culture; and (3) conducing a pilot with 14 Native American adolescents to examine acceptability and cultural congruence between the adapted intervention and the youth’s culture based on Likert-scale ratings and a focus group. The adaptations included diverse Native American social and cultural stories that assisted with responsible decision-making skills. The adolescents consistently rated each intervention session as highly acceptable. A difference in knowledge from pre-survey (M = 13.93, SD = 3.08) to post-survey (M = 17.14, SD = 2.25) was statistically significant; t(13) = 4.166, p < .0005. The adapted curriculum did appear culturally responsive based on the pilot test results.
Disciplines
Immune System Diseases
Language
English
Repository Citation
Lee, C.,
Thompson-Robinson, M.,
Dodge-Francis, C.
(2018).
Acceptability of an Adapted HIV Prevention Intervention for Native American Adolescents.
AIDS Education and Prevention, 30(1),
72-84.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2018.30.1.72
