Utilizing Digital Health Technology to Increase Sexual Health Care Access: Youth Preferences on Self-Collect, Mail-In Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing in a High Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevalence Area.

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for innovative approaches to delivering care. Self-collect, mail-in sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing could address barriers to in-person STI testing, particularly for youth, who bear a disproportionate burden of STIs. This study sought to obtain youth input on the development of a free self-collect, mail-in STI testing program.

Through Their Eyes: Youth Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Barriers and Facilitators in Baltimore, Maryland.

Purpose: Youth face barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Few states require the delivery of comprehensive sex education in schools, and youth report challenges with accessing clinical care. We sought to identify youth's perceived barriers and facilitators to SRH in their communities.

Advancing Access to Care through Digital Health: Perspectives from Youth on a Novel Platform to Increase Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care and Education for Adolescents and Young Adults.

Study Objective: Youth account for half of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States annually. Barriers to STI prevention include a lack of accurate sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education and low STI testing. We sought to obtain youth feedback on a digital health platform prototype designed to address these barriers.