NCT03348124

Prevention Among Young People With Intellectual Disability

Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancy and a Path to Informed Choice Among Young People With Intellectual Disability- a RCT, Intervention With Conversational Support and Real-Care-Baby Simulator

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 59 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Uppsala University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to evaluate an intervention using the Toolkit "Children - what does it involve?" and the "Real-Care-Baby" (RCB) simulator among students with intellectual disability (ID), using a cluster randomized trial design with waiting-list control group.

Detailed description

Background: There is limited knowledge about how young people with ID can be facilitated in their process of deciding about parenthood. A feasibility study showed that it is possible to evaluate an intervention using the chosen instruments among students with ID in order to provide them with further insights about parenthood. Methods: Randomization of eleven clusters/schools to intervention and eleven clusters to waiting-list control. Intervention includes thirteen educational lessons and a three-day and night caring-session with the RCB simulator. Intervention will be given 1-2 lessons/week during 8-14 weeks. Data will be collected with questionnaires and interviews before and after intervention. In control group: Before and after waiting-list time and after intervention.

Conditions

• Intellectual Disability
• Adolescent Development
• Young Adult

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	"Children - what does it involve?"	Thirteen educational lessons based on the conversational material Toolkit will be delivered in the classroom at school, two lessons per theme. The themes consists of: 1) a card game: "What i wish" 2) Time 3) Money 4) Skills 5) Relations 6) Housing. The material is prepared and same for all schools. This intervention will be given 1-2 lessons per week over a period of 8-14 weeks. During this period the students also care for the RCB simulator during three days and nights, but with a break for "day care" for the simulator which was between 7 am and 5 pm when the students were in school. All students will practice handling the simulator to be familiar with all types of needs: to rock, change diaper, feed and burp and were taught the skills of head support, techniques to avoid rough handling.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2021-07-31
• First posted: 2017-11-20
• Last updated: 2018-05-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden