Discussion
This study assessed the feasibility, acceptability, and
initial efficacy of an innovative online sexual health promotion
program tailored for LGBT youth. Study findings
suggest that the delivery of comprehensive sexual
health education online is feasible. Enrollment statistics
indicate a large number of individuals clicked on our
ads to find out more about the study and that the most
common reason for ineligibility was the requirement that
participants be in a current same-sex relationship. We set
this relationship eligibility criterion so that participants
would have an opportunity to practice the relationship
and safer-sex skills proximal to learning them, which
augments learning of new skills (Taylor, Russ-Eft, &
Chan, 2005). Also, it is difficult to evaluate change in
relationship skills among single individuals. Further
evidence of program feasibility comes from tracking
analytics, which show that participants spent nearly
two hours engaged with the intervention content. Over
three-fourths of participants who completed the pretest
completed the full intervention, nearly all (96.1%) of
whom also completed the two-week posttest assessment.