Interactive Web-based Sexual Health Literacy Program and Safe Sex Practice in University Students

Summary

The primary objective is to evaluate the efficacy of an Interactive web-based sexual health literacy program to enhance safe sex practice among female university students. Based on Health Belief Model, the intervention comprising: (1) personalized perceived susceptibility and perceived severity of STIs and cervical cancer; (2) perceived benefits and perceived barriers of safe sex practice via knowledge- based information; (3) cue to action via the local resources; and (4) self-efficacy via narrative stories, which are tailored for female university students, to communicate safe sex messages. The investigators hypothesised that the intervention will enhance consistency of condom use, knowledge, attitude, norms, self-efficacy towards condom use, sexual consent, sexual communication and reduce sexual coercion and casual sex among participants in intervention group compared to those in control group.

A multicentered randomized controlled trial will be conducted in 500 female university students in 5 universities with dormitories. Inclusion criteria are unmarried female university Chinese students aged at least 18-year and not received any sexual health intervention in the past 12 months. The main outcome measures will be self-reported consistency of condom use with every partner in 3-month assessments, sexual coercion, sexual consent, casual sex and sexual communication. The study instruments used will be UCLA Multidimensional Condom Attitudes Scale; Sexual Consent Scale-Revised; Conflict Tactic Scale-Revised; and Sexual Communication Self-Efficacy Scale. The data analysis will be a linear mixed effects model with intervention group and baseline consistency of condom use as the covariates. The investigators expected that the intervention will enhance consistency of condom use with Cohen effect size of 0.3.

Conditions

• Safe Sex

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Interactive computer-based intervention

There are 4 components of the Interactive computer-based intervention(ICBI) which will be delivered in 3 phases: 1. Perceived Susceptibility and Perceived Severity 2. Perceived Benefits and Perceived Barriers 3. Cue to Action 4. Self-Efficacy In addition, a discussion forum will be created to handle questions from the participants. Also, there will be an email address for enquiries if the participants need any support or if they want to seek further enquiry/ clarification after reading the web-based information.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Chinese University of Hong Kong

  collaborator OTHER

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  collaborator OTHER

• Hong Kong Shue Yan University

  collaborator OTHER

• City University of Hong Kong

  collaborator OTHER

• The University of Hong Kong

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Janet Yuen Ha Wong, PhD · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-09-01

Primary Completion

2019-10-29

Completion

2019-10-29

Countries

• Hong Kong

Study Locations