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A Mobile App to Assist the Mentors of African American Young Men Who Have Sex With Men: Usability Study
| العنوان: | A Mobile App to Assist the Mentors of African American Young Men Who Have Sex With Men: Usability Study |
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| المؤلفون: | Michelle R Kaufman, Kate Wright, Evan L Eschliman, Deborah Levine, Jeannette Simon |
| المصدر: | JMIR Formative Research, Vol 7, p e48515 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | JMIR Publications |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine |
| الوصف: | BackgroundMentoring can promote positive youth development. Owing to social and structural factors, young people in underresourced communities often lack adequate access to mentors, and naturally occurring mentors are more common than formal, programmatic mentors. There is little information on the impact of naturally occurring mentors on youth in general and even less on the role that mentors may play in promoting healthy outcomes in sexual and gender minority youth. African American young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are more likely to reside in communities with limited access to formalized mentorship programs and may benefit from naturally occurring mentoring relationships that address health outcomes, specifically related to HIV. ObjectiveThis study is a usability test of a mobile app designed for the mentors of African American YMSM to increase mentors’ knowledge of and confidence in talking about HIV prevention and related topics with mentees. MethodsFollowing consent, eligible and naturally occurring mentoring pairs involving African American YMSM in Baltimore; Philadelphia; and Washington, District of Columbia, tested the app, UrbanMentorHub, for usability. Participants downloaded the app and used it for 1 month, completed pre- and postintervention surveys, and participated in a follow-up focus group discussion. Participants’ sociodemographic characteristics and HIV- and mentorship-related measures were characterized using descriptive statistics. Wilcoxon signed rank tests were used to test for pre- and postintervention differences in knowledge, confidence, and outcome expectancy measures. Focus group discussions were audio recorded and transcribed. Transcripts were thematically coded and analyzed to identify ways that UrbanMentorHub could be improved in the mentoring context. ResultsNine mentorship pairs participated in this usability study (N=18). Mentors obtained high scores on knowledge, confidence, outcome expectancies, skills, and intentions related to HIV and mentoring. No pre- or ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2561-326X |
| Relation: | https://formative.jmir.org/2023/1/e48515; https://doaj.org/toc/2561-326X; https://doaj.org/article/e478e02b55f045bb9ecf8035b12c02c0 |
| DOI: | 10.2196/48515 |
| الاتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.2196/48515 https://doaj.org/article/e478e02b55f045bb9ecf8035b12c02c0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.C04BDC87 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 2561326X |
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| DOI: | 10.2196/48515 |