Abstract

Effective sexual health education plays a critical role in adolescent pregnancy and HIV and STI prevention. This article describes the formative research conducted to design, and then pilot-test, SkillFlix^®, a streaming video training created to improve educators’ skills in delivering sexual health education to youth by modeling Microskills^®. Results from pilot testing of the SkillFlix training exceeded expectations, with educators demonstrating significant improvement in integrating and successfully using two prototype Microskills: (1) correct implementation of LGBTQ inclusivity; and (2) answering of sensitive questions. Educators’ perceived skill levels also increased significantly after using SkillFlix. Skill acquisition occurred even though the educators employed content (vs. skills acquisition) focus when using the resource.

摘要

有效的性健康教育在青少年怀孕以及艾滋病毒和性传播感染的预防中起着至关重要的作用。本文介绍了进行设计形成性研究，然后试点测试，SkillFlix ^®，建立以提高教育者的技能，通过建模Microskills性健康教育提供给青少年一个流媒体视频培训^®。来自SkillFlix培训的试点测试结果超出了预期，教育工作者证明在整合和成功使用两种微技能原型方面取得了显着改善：（1）正确实施LGBTQ包容性；（2）回答敏感问题。使用SkillFlix后，教育者的感知技能水平也显着提高。即使教育者在使用资源时使用了内容（相对于技能获取），也发生了技能获取。