Optimizing a Multi-Modal Intervention to Reduce Health-Risking Sexual Behaviors: Component Selection

All participants will receive the basic educational component in the Mission Wellness app. This component will contain text and media (e.g., images, videos) to teach basic SRH topics. The exact information in this component will be determined by an assessment of baseline SRH knowledge at the start of the intervention.

The narrative video component is a motivation-based component that includes stories of individuals engaging in positive and negative SRH behaviors that lead to either positive or negative outcomes, respectively, in a video format.

The skills-building videos component is a component rooted in behavioral skills that involves the provision of information on how to perform or engage positive SRH behaviors (e.g., correctly using a condom, what to expect when having a Pap smear) via instructional videos.

The interactive scenarios are a behavioral skills-building component that walks through conversations surrounding SRH with select individuals (e.g., partner, healthcare provider), providing suggestions on how to have these conversations and why these conversations are important to have.

The future life planning tool is a motivation-based component contains a series of questions to help users plan future goals to put current decision making related to SRH into perspective and provide suggestions on how to stay healthy now to be able to achieve those goals later.

The risk component is an information- and motivation-based component with tailored epidemiological risk information about relative risk of contracting a specific STI and/or having an unintended pregnancy. Relative risk information will be determined by adjusting variables within the component (e.g., number of partners within the last month, percent of time using condoms).