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Healthy Futures Evaluation

NCT02554825 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1344

Last updated 2015-09-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study evaluated the impact of the three-year Healthy Futures program on teen sexual behaviors in three Massachusetts cities.

Conditions

  • Sexual Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Healthy Futures

Healthy Futures is an age-appropriate program that targets change at different social ecological levels-individual, interpersonal, and organizational. The main component is a classroom-based relationship education curriculum, Nu-CULTURE, offered in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade for eight 50-minute sessions each year. A number of supplemental efforts aim to enhance the Nu-CULTURE program and create social supports: 1) virtual classrooms where participating youth are encouraged to visit age-appropriate youth websites; 2) daily interactive parental connection forms linked with Nu-CULTURE, a parent website, and workshops (True Connections); 3) a 10-week after-school program, Rhymin' it Write, encourages youth leadership; 4) a 6-week summer program, Code A, engages youth during out-of-school time after 8th grade.

BEHAVIORAL

Control

The Control Curriculum offers students in the control group two 50-minute classes each year on general health education topics. Students in the 6th grade receive a class on puberty/reproduction and a class on bullying prevention; students in the 7th grade receive two classes on dating-violence prevention; and students in the 8th grade receive two classes on mental health promotion.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Department of Health and Human Services

    collaborator FED

  • Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston

    collaborator OTHER

  • Healthy Futures

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-08-31
Primary Completion
2015-03-31
Completion
2015-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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