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The World Starts With Me: using intervention mapping for the systematic adaptation and transfer of school-based sexuality education from Uganda to Indonesia

Authors: Joanne N Leerlooijer, Robert A C Ruiter, Jo Reinders, Wati Darwisyah, Gerjo Kok, L Kay Bartholomew

Published in: Translational Behavioral Medicine | Issue 2/2011

Abstract

Evidence-based health promotion programmes, including HIV/AIDS prevention and sexuality education programmes, are often transferred to other cultures, priority groups and implementation settings. Challenges in this process include the identification of retaining core elements that relate to the programme’s effectiveness while making changes that enhances acceptance in the new context and for the new priority group. This paper describes the use of a systematic approach to programme adaptation using a case study as an example. Intervention Mapping, a protocol for the development of evidence-based behaviour change interventions, was used to adapt the comprehensive school-based sexuality education programme ‘The World Starts With Me’. The programme was developed for a priority population in Uganda and adapted to a programme for Indonesian secondary school students. The approach helped to systematically address the complexity and challenges of programme adaptation and to find a balance between preservation of essential programme elements (i.e. logic models) that may be crucial to the programme’s effectiveness, including key objectives and theoretical behaviour change methods, and the adaptation of the programme to be acceptable to the new priority group and the programme implementers.

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Title: The World Starts With Me: using intervention mapping for the systematic adaptation and transfer of school-based sexuality education from Uganda to Indonesia
Authors: Joanne N Leerlooijer
Robert A C Ruiter
Jo Reinders
Wati Darwisyah
Gerjo Kok
L Kay Bartholomew
Publication date: 01-06-2011
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Translational Behavioral Medicine / Issue 2/2011
Print ISSN: 1869-6716
Electronic ISSN: 1613-9860
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13142-011-0041-3

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