NCT02554825

Healthy Futures Evaluation

Healthy Futures Longitudinal School-Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,344 (actual)
• Sponsor: JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

This study evaluated the impact of the three-year Healthy Futures program on teen sexual behaviors in three Massachusetts cities.

Detailed description

This study evaluated the impact of the three-year Healthy Futures program on teen sexual behaviors in three Massachusetts cities. This longitudinal school-cluster randomized controlled trial included 15 public middle schools (n=1,344). Participants were enrolled in the 6th grade in the 2011-2012 school year (Cohort 1) or 2012-2013 school year (Cohort 2). Outcome data sources included five student surveys: baseline; 6th, 7th, 8th grade follow-ups; and 9th grade follow-up (Cohort 1 only).

Conditions

• Sexual Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Futures	Healthy Futures is an age-appropriate program that targets change at different social ecological levels-individual, interpersonal, and organizational. The main component is a classroom-based relationship education curriculum, Nu-CULTURE, offered in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade for eight 50-minute sessions each year. A number of supplemental efforts aim to enhance the Nu-CULTURE program and create social supports: 1) virtual classrooms where participating youth are encouraged to visit age-appropriate youth websites; 2) daily interactive parental connection forms linked with Nu-CULTURE, a parent website, and workshops (True Connections); 3) a 10-week after-school program, Rhymin' it Write, encourages youth leadership; 4) a 6-week summer program, Code A, engages youth during out-of-school time after 8th grade.
BEHAVIORAL	Control	The Control Curriculum offers students in the control group two 50-minute classes each year on general health education topics. Students in the 6th grade receive a class on puberty/reproduction and a class on bullying prevention; students in the 7th grade receive two classes on dating-violence prevention; and students in the 8th grade receive two classes on mental health promotion.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2015-05-01
• First posted: 2015-09-18
• Last updated: 2015-09-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States