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Reducing HIV Risk Among Adolescents: Evaluating Project HEART

NCT02579135 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 222

Last updated 2018-10-16

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Summary

This study evaluates an educational web-based intervention designed to increase adolescent girls' motivation and skills to engage in safer sexual behavior (Project HEART: Health Education and Relationship Training). Half of participants will receive Project HEART and half of participants will receive Project Growing Minds, an attention-matched control website focused on growth mindsets of intelligence and self-regulation. The ultimate goal of this work is to help girls reduce their risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and to avoid unplanned pregnancies.

Conditions

  • HIV
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Safer Sex

Interactive web-based intervention with five modules: motivation, knowledge, attitudes/norms, self-efficacy, and sexual communication skills.

BEHAVIORAL

Growth Mindsets

Interactive web-based intervention with five modules: mindsets introduction, growth mindsets of intelligence, growth mindsets of self-control, growth mindsets of people, and integrative summary.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • North Carolina State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura Widman, PhD · North Carolina State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-07
Primary Completion
2016-05-04
Completion
2017-04-06

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

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