Table 2 Young people’s proposals for a web-based participatory intervention for sexual health

A - Promote sexual health in web-based intervention

1

to address biological and medical questions on sexual health, including body and anatomic changing during puberty, contraception, HIV but also other sexually transmitted diseases

2

to address sexuality in general, notably addressing relationships, pleasure, not just health

3

to address concerns structured by personal experience much more than by age

4

to promote sexual health outside the “norm” of heterosexuality (including sexual orientation and transidentity) of young people in good health

B - Trustworthy web-based intervention

5

to provide centralized and credible information

6

to involve specialized professionals to promote sexual health in the web-based intervention to be able to provide trustworthy information

C - Attractive and accessible web-based intervention

7

to provide playfulness information on sexual health

8

to be fun, non-infantile, unformatted and non-institutionalized

9

to permit to navigate easily in the web-based intervention thanks to a good general organization with information section according to type of content (information, interaction, and help numbers)

10

to propose different explicit categories on sexual health: types of sexual health issues, types of sexual life situations possibilities, types of practices and risks associated

11

to increment a tweeting system (hashtag) to find more easily resources

12

to develop a mobile application as it is more accessible on smartphone

13

to develop a web-based intervention linked (but separated) to preferred uses

14

to use major media and SNS to advertise on the web-based intervention

15

to choose a name of the web-based intervention that should be easily identifiable and pronounceable

D - Personalized, participatory and interactive web-based intervention

16

to give an access to ask question to have personalized answers

17

to publish anonymously recurrent questions and answers, to show to young people that they are not alone and preserve discretion

18

to give geo-localized resources in the web-based intervention to help access to health services close to where young people live (abortion, STIs)

19

to offer a vote system on the topics to be discussed or addressed in intervention, because this system will answer to expressed youth’s needs

20

to implement a serious game, with challenges in life situations, in order to engage participation and projection of participant to anticipate sexual health situations

21

to give access to quizzes, with complementary information, in order to get information and better understanding, allowing young people to test their knowledge

22

to generate discussions about daily life situations, because it is important to be grounded in the realities of youth

23

to reuse elements of youth culture (media-series) to bring about discussion important sexual health topics

24

to include influencers and the opportunity to interact with them

25

to give opportunity to interact directly with sexual health specialists and professionals to have highly valid and personalized answers

26

to permit in intervention peer-to-peer experiences sharing through discussion forums or chats to feel less alone in life situations including sexual health

E - Safe and confident web-based intervention

27

to propose a proper supervision of all exchanges with an efficient system of moderation

28

to provide individual and personal responses in private through e-mails or telephone responses, in order to discuss topics confidentially with knowledgeable people

29

to separate web-based intervention from SNSs, in order to have a watertight seal between the identifying networks and their intimate spheres on the Internet

30

to permit online anonymity for sexuality issues, especially for intimate matters related to sexuality

31

to permit for participants the use of pseudonyms