NCT02993185

Making Healthy Decisions: A Trial Evaluating the "Your Move" Teen Pregnancy-prevention Intervention

An Integrated Group-Individual Curriculum to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 808 (actual)
• Sponsor: Carnegie Mellon University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 14 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of Making Healthy Decisions is to design and rigorously evaluate a new sexual health education program, "Your Move" (YM) against a nutrition control program, "Eat Smart" (ES). YM is intended to improve teen females' (ages 14-19) ability to make healthy sexual decisions with the ultimate goal of reducing unplanned pregnancies and STIs.

Detailed description

Making Healthy Decisions includes two technology-based interventions designed to improve teen females' healthy decision making in relation to sexual relationships (YM) and nutrition (ES). Health educators from Planned Parenthood are trained to implement both YM and ES at youth-serving community organizations in their geographic area across several U.S. states. In a multi-site randomized controlled trial, females ages 14-19 are recruited from their local community-based organization (CBO) into groups/cohorts of 8-12. Each cohort is randomly assigned to participate in one of the two interventions prior to baseline data collection. Participants attend seven 75-minute program sessions that include facilitator-led games, activities, and discussions as well as personal reflection time in which girls practiced healthy decision making individually on an electronic tablet. Self-reported survey data related to attitudes, knowledge, and behavior around sex and nutrition are collected at baseline as well as 3 months after the intervention ends.

Conditions

• Pregnancy, Abdominal
• Sexual Behavior
• Sexually Transmitted Infection
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Dietary Modification
• Eating Behaviors

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Your Move	Your Move (YM) is an interactive sex education intervention. Groups of girls are randomly assigned to YM or Eat Smart (ES), a control interactive nutrition education intervention. Each program consist of seven 75-minute sessions, and each session contains 60 minutes of facilitator-led discussion, video clips, activities, and games as well as 15 minutes of "personal reflection" time during which girls practice the decision making skills they have learned. Participants complete online surveys about their attitudes, knowledge, and behavior related to food and nutrition and relationships and sex at baseline and also 3 months after the program ends.
BEHAVIORAL	Eat Smart	Eat Smart (ES) is an interactive nutrition education intervention. Groups of girls are randomly assigned to ES or Your Move, an interactive sex education intervention. Each program consist of seven 75-minute sessions, and each session contains 60 minutes of facilitator-led discussion, video clips, activities, and games as well as 15 minutes of "personal reflection" time during which girls practice the decision making skills they have learned. Participants complete online surveys about their attitudes, knowledge, and behavior related to food and nutrition and relationships and sex at baseline and also 3 months after the program ends.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-10-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2016-12-15
• Last updated: 2021-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States