Title
Development of Long Live Love+, a school-based online sexual health programme for young adults. An intervention mapping approach
Author
Mevissen, F.E.F.
van Empelen, P.
Watzeels, A.
van Duin, G.
Meijer, S.
van Lieshout, S.
Kok, G.
Publication year
2018
Abstract
This paper describes the development of a Dutch online programme called Long Live Love+ focusing on positive, coercion-free relationships, contraception use, and the prevention of STIs, using the Intervention Mapping (IM) approach. All six steps of the approach were followed. Step 1 confirmed the need for a sexual health programme targeting young people aged 15 and over enrolled in higher level secondary education. Step 2 resulted in the production of a series of matrices-of-changes, including detailed programme objectives at the behavioural and the psycho-social level. Step 3 involved the selection of relevant methods and applications. Step 4 consisted of programme development, resulting in a sexual health programme with online and offline components, and including interactive exercises. Step 5 focused on adoption and implementation and included the production of a detailed teacher manual. Step 6 involved detailed planning for the process and effect evaluation and included interviews with teachers and focus group discussions with students to evaluate their experiences of the programme. The inclusion of a linkage group – and especially the inclusion of teachers in the development of the programme – turned out to be essential in terms of developing a programme in line with their context and needs.
Subject
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Behavioural Changes
Healthy Living
Healthy for Life
Schools
Comprehensive sexuality education
Intervention mapping
Pregnancy prevention
STI/HIV prevention
Sexual harassment prevention
The Netherlands
STI/HIV prevention
Adoption
Adult
Contraceptive behavior
Education
Exercise
Female
Genetic linkage
Human
Human experiment
Human immunodeficiency virus
Interview
Male
Nonhuman
Persuasive communication
Pregnancy
Program development
Sexual harassment
Sexual health
Student
Teacher
CH - Child Health
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2017.1389717
TNO identifier
782623
Source
Sex Education, 18 (18), 47-73
Document type
article