Healthy Relationships

The Healthy Relationships Study will produce and pilot test for feasibility and acceptability an online education module for 14- to 18-year-old high school-attending US youth about sexually explicit media and HIV/STI risk behaviors. It will collect formative data from youth and school administrators and teachers, expert feedback, and pilot-test the intervention with sample of 40 youth. The goal of this study is to produce a new and innovative HIV prevention approach within a sexual health wellness framework (e.g., sex ed) that will help to build connections with community-based partners (e.g., school systems) to prevent new HIV infections among adolescents.

This work is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (R21HD105482, MPI: Nelson & Rothman).