NCT04388696

A Feasibility Trial of Sisterhood 2.0

A Gender Transformative Program to Prevent Sexual Violence and Relationship Abuse Among Adolescent Women: A Feasibility Trial of Sisterhood 2.0

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 246 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 13 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This pilot quasi-experimental community based trial examines the feasibility of a sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse prevention program for girls aged 14-19. Feasibility is assessed through participant attendance, retention and program satisfaction measures and interviews are conducted at baseline, end of program and 3 month follow up (endline) about participant experiences.

Detailed description

The goal of the project is to adapt and pilot a "gender transformative," sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse prevention program, Sisterhood 2.0, among African American high school-age females in a community-based setting. The Sisterhood 2.0 curriculum was adapted from Program M, created in 2006 by Promundo to address health and empowerment of young women aged 15-24. The curriculum engages young women in questioning rigid and non-equitable stereotypes about masculinity and femininity and how these rigid stereotypes affect their health and well-being. This study will pilot test, using a quasi-experimental design, the participant satisfaction with the program through measures of attendance and retention, and be compared to a job skills development curriculum. This study is significant because there are too few evidence-based sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse prevention program in the U.S., none that are specifically tailored for African American adolescent females, and there are no evidence- based programs implemented in community settings that target both sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse and adolescent sexual health.

Conditions

• Adolescent Behavior
• Violence in Adolescence
• Group, Peer
• Violence, Non-accidental
• Violence, Sexual
• Violence, Physical
• Violence, Domestic
• Emotional Abuse
• Coping Skills
• Communication, Personal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Sisterhood 2.0	The Sisterhood 2.0 curriculum was adapted from Program M, created in 2006 by Promundo to address health and empowerment of young women aged 15-24. The curriculum engages young women in questioning rigid and non-equitable stereotypes about masculinity and femininity and how they affect both women's and men's health and well-being.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-01
• Primary completion: 2019-06-01
• Completion: 2020-01-31
• First posted: 2020-05-14
• Last updated: 2020-05-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States