Pilot testing Fostering Open eXpression among Youth (FOXY), an arts-based HIV/STI prevention approach for adolescent women in the Northwest Territories, Canada

Fostering Open eXpression among Youth (FOXY) is an arts-based HIV prevention program developed by Northern Canadians to address sexual health, HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexuality, and healthy relationships among Northern and Indigenous youth in Canada. We conducted a pilot study w...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:International Journal of STD & AIDS
Main Authors: Lys, Candice L, Logie, Carmen H, Okumu, Moses
Other Authors: Public Health Agency of Canada, Institute of Aboriginal Peoples Health
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2018
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Northwest Territories
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956462418770873
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Summary:Fostering Open eXpression among Youth (FOXY) is an arts-based HIV prevention program developed by Northern Canadians to address sexual health, HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexuality, and healthy relationships among Northern and Indigenous youth in Canada. We conducted a pilot study with Indigenous and Northern young women aged 13–17 years from 17 communities in the Northwest Territories to evaluate whether, in comparison to pre-intervention, FOXY participants demonstrated increased knowledge of STIs, increased safer sex self-efficacy, and increased resilience. Wilcoxon test results indicated significant increases in STI knowledge scores and safer sex self-efficacy scores. Findings suggest that FOXY holds promise as an effective method of delivering sexual health information through peer education, and increasing STI knowledge, safe sex self-efficacy, and resilience.

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