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Trial of the Teens and Toddlers Intervention

NCT01310543 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 449

Last updated 2016-09-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Teens and Toddlers is an intervention that enables young people at risk of teenage pregnancy to spend time mentoring a toddler as well as participating in counselling and classroom work focused on youth development. This trial aims to test primary hypotheses that girls age 13/14 who are randomly allocated to participate in the T\&T intervention are more likely to report use of contraception at last sex, less likely to report frequent sex without contraception over the previous 3 months, less likely to expect to become teenage parents and more likely to report high scores for youth development indicators one year after the intervention than are similar girls who are randomised not to participate. The trial involves a total of 180 girls per arm and is being conducted across England funded by the Department for Education and conducted by the London School of Hygiene and the National Centre for Social Research.

Conditions

  • Pregnancy in Adolescence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Teens and Toddlers

The T\&T intervention aims to prevent teenage pregnancy and promote sexual health by providing young women at risk of teenage pregnancy with regular and direct contact with a toddler and combines this with 12 modules of group-based personal-development sessions involving communication skills, anger management, discussion of positive sexual health and relationships, culminating in an accredited National Award in Interpersonal Skills. One-to-one life coaching is also provided. The intervention consists of 20 weekly afternoon sessions run in nurseries near to the secondary schools from which participating young women are recruited.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chris Bonell, PhD · London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-12-31
Primary Completion
2011-10-31
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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