Assessing Sexual Health and Healthy Relationships at Duke University: An Analysis of Quantitative Survey Methods and Design

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  • December 17, 2019
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  • Dooley, Caitlin
    • Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Public Health Leadership Program
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  • Assessment is a valuable tool often used by public health practitioners to better understand the context and scope of health issues plaguing the populations in which they serve. Practitioners working in the field of sexual health on college campuses face barriers to fully understanding the extent of attitudes, motivations and behaviors surrounding student sexual activity. A quality assessment tool is vital to procuring this information for practitioners. Practitioners use findings to identify the sexual health needs of students on campus and conceptualize and implement effective solutions that target these needs. A review of a current sexual health assessment tool used at Duke University revealed opportunities for quality improvement in the survey design. Assessments that lack quality survey designs are inefficient or incapable of collecting the data practitioners need. This paper reviews evidence to help redefine the purpose of sexual health assessment at Duke University. Core attributes of gold-standard survey design including validity, reliability, accuracy, and relevancy are applied in the development of a new quality assessment tool. In submitting the tool to an assessment analysis in which standards of quality are critically reviewed, preliminary conclusions identify several quality indicators within the tool. The product of this activity is a quality survey instrument that better meets the sexual health assessment needs of DuWell at Duke University. The new survey will aid practitioners in understanding the full context and scope of sexual activity and behaviors on campus for the purpose of developing appropriate response strategies.
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  • Track: Leadership
  • Paper type: Research or research design
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  • Upshaw, Vaughn
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  • Parker, Lindsey
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  • Master of Public Health
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  • Public Health
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 2019
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