TY - JOUR
T1 - A Text Mining Approach for Adapting a School-Based Sexual Health Promotion Program in Colombia
AU - Vallejo-Medina, Pablo
AU - Correa, Juan C
AU - Gomez-Lugo, Mayra
AU - Saavedra-Roa, Diego Alejandro
AU - García-Montaño, Eileen
AU - Pérez-Pedraza, Diana
AU - Nieves-Charris, J
AU - García-Roncallo, Paola
AU - Abello-Luque, Daniella
AU - Espada, José Pedro
AU - Morales, Alexandra
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - A common practice among clinical psychologists and other health professionals is the use of school-based sexual health promotion programs as a means for preventing sexually transmitted infections. A fundamental criterion for the designing and adaptation of these programs is the age of their target populations because limited education and language are the most relevant factors that limit the efficacy of these programs. The contribution of this paper consists of assessing both the readability of the written materials that accompany the contents of a Spanish-written school-based sexual health promotion program used in Colombia, as well as the words co-occurrence network structure of its contents. The readability of the evaluated program corresponded to its intended target population aged between 14 and 19, with the schooling of 9–13 years of education. The resulting words co-occurrence network structure of the COMPAS program also mirrored its theoretical content. These results all together are deemed as empirical evidence of the adequacy of the program.
AB - A common practice among clinical psychologists and other health professionals is the use of school-based sexual health promotion programs as a means for preventing sexually transmitted infections. A fundamental criterion for the designing and adaptation of these programs is the age of their target populations because limited education and language are the most relevant factors that limit the efficacy of these programs. The contribution of this paper consists of assessing both the readability of the written materials that accompany the contents of a Spanish-written school-based sexual health promotion program used in Colombia, as well as the words co-occurrence network structure of its contents. The readability of the evaluated program corresponded to its intended target population aged between 14 and 19, with the schooling of 9–13 years of education. The resulting words co-occurrence network structure of the COMPAS program also mirrored its theoretical content. These results all together are deemed as empirical evidence of the adequacy of the program.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101090
DO - 10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101090
M3 - Article
C2 - 32322460
SN - 2211-3355
VL - 18
SP - 101090
JO - Preventive Medicine Reports
JF - Preventive Medicine Reports
M1 - 101090
ER -