Tribal recommendations for designing culturally appropriate technology-based sexual health interventions targeting Native youth in the Pacific Northwest

Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res. 2012;19(1):76-101. doi: 10.5820/aian.1901.2012.76.

Abstract

Media technologies, including the Internet, cell phones, and video games, offer new avenues to reach Native youth on sensitive health topics. Project Red Talon, a sexually transmitted disease (STD)/HIV prevention project that serves the 43 federally recognized tribes in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, used community-based participatory research methods in partnership with the Northwest tribes to review existing technology-based interventions and generate recommendations for designing interventions that reflect the culture, needs, and organizational capacities of participating tribes and Native youth. These findings are now being used to guide the development of technology-based health interventions targeting American Indian/Alaska Native teens and young adults.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Community-Based Participatory Research
  • Culture
  • HIV Infections / ethnology*
  • HIV Infections / prevention & control
  • Health Education / methods*
  • Humans
  • Indians, North American*
  • Information Seeking Behavior*
  • Internet
  • Medical Informatics*
  • Northwestern United States
  • Reproductive Health / education
  • Reproductive Health / ethnology*
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases / ethnology*
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases / prevention & control
  • Young Adult