NCT01579617

e-SiHLE: An Internet Pregnancy Prevention for Older Teenage Girls

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 637 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tulane University Health Sciences Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an online pregnancy prevention intervention that was adapted from the evidence based small group intervention SiHLE.

Detailed description

The investigators will test the hypothesis that by the end of the study, women who receive the e-SIHLE intervention will have a 35% increase in reliable contraception use compared to attention control website, DIVAS, which is a health and nutrition education program. Both arms of the study were designed for African-American women who are 18-19 years old.

Conditions

• Pregnancy
• Sexually Transmitted Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	BUtiful.	8 website sessions include themes that teach: gender empowerment, assertive communication skills, goal setting, pregnancy and STI/HIV risk, safer sex behaviors, proper condom use, positive attitudes and norms towards consistent condom use, contraception, partner involvement in safer sex, and responsibility for their own health.
BEHAVIORAL	DIVAS.	Attention control arm: 8 website sessions that include topics on: healthy eating, choosing nutritional snacks, sugar and salt intake, physical activity, stress management, foods for beauty.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-12-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2012-04-18
• Last updated: 2016-12-19

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: United States