Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02579135
Reducing HIV Risk Among Adolescents: Evaluating Project HEART
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 222 (actual)
- Sponsor
- North Carolina State University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- 14 Years – 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This study evaluates an educational web-based intervention designed to increase adolescent girls' motivation and skills to engage in safer sexual behavior (Project HEART: Health Education and Relationship Training). Half of participants will receive Project HEART and half of participants will receive Project Growing Minds, an attention-matched control website focused on growth mindsets of intelligence and self-regulation. The ultimate goal of this work is to help girls reduce their risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and to avoid unplanned pregnancies.
Detailed description
This study evaluates an educational web-based intervention designed to increase adolescent girls' motivation and skills to engage in safer sexual behavior (Project HEART: Health Education and Relationship Training). Half of participants will receive Project HEART and half of participants will receive Project Growing Minds, an attention-matched control website focused on growth mindsets of intelligence and self-regulation. The ultimate goal of this work is to help girls reduce their risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and to avoid unplanned pregnancies. Primary outcomes for this study include 1) acceptability of the program, 2) communication self-efficacy, and 3) communication intentions.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Safer Sex | Interactive web-based intervention with five modules: motivation, knowledge, attitudes/norms, self-efficacy, and sexual communication skills. |
| BEHAVIORAL | Growth Mindsets | Interactive web-based intervention with five modules: mindsets introduction, growth mindsets of intelligence, growth mindsets of self-control, growth mindsets of people, and integrative summary. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-09-07
- Primary completion
- 2016-05-04
- Completion
- 2017-04-06
- First posted
- 2015-10-19
- Last updated
- 2018-10-16
- Results posted
- 2018-10-16
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02579135. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.