%0 Journal Article
%T Pilot testing Fostering Open eXpression among Youth (FOXY), an arts
%A Candice L Lys
%A Carmen H Logie
%A Moses Okumu
%J International Journal of STD & AIDS
%@ 1758-1052
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0956462418770873
%X Fostering Open eXpression among Youth (FOXY) is an arts-based HIV prevention program developed by Northern Canadians to address sexual health, HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexuality, and healthy relationships among Northern and Indigenous youth in Canada. We conducted a pilot study with Indigenous and Northern young women aged 13¨C17 years from 17 communities in the Northwest Territories to evaluate whether, in comparison to pre-intervention, FOXY participants demonstrated increased knowledge of STIs, increased safer sex self-efficacy, and increased resilience. Wilcoxon test results indicated significant increases in STI knowledge scores and safer sex self-efficacy scores. Findings suggest that FOXY holds promise as an effective method of delivering sexual health information through peer education, and increasing STI knowledge, safe sex self-efficacy, and resilience
%K Arts-based intervention
%K HIV/STI prevention
%K Indigenous
%K Northwest Territories
%K youth
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956462418770873