Making Healthy Decisions: A Trial Evaluating the "Your Move" Teen Pregnancy-prevention Intervention

Summary

The purpose of Making Healthy Decisions is to design and rigorously evaluate a new sexual health education program, "Your Move" (YM) against a nutrition control program, "Eat Smart" (ES). YM is intended to improve teen females' (ages 14-19) ability to make healthy sexual decisions with the ultimate goal of reducing unplanned pregnancies and STIs.

Conditions

• Pregnancy, Abdominal
• Sexual Behavior
• Sexually Transmitted Infection
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Dietary Modification
• Eating Behaviors

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Your Move

Your Move (YM) is an interactive sex education intervention. Groups of girls are randomly assigned to YM or Eat Smart (ES), a control interactive nutrition education intervention. Each program consist of seven 75-minute sessions, and each session contains 60 minutes of facilitator-led discussion, video clips, activities, and games as well as 15 minutes of "personal reflection" time during which girls practice the decision making skills they have learned. Participants complete online surveys about their attitudes, knowledge, and behavior related to food and nutrition and relationships and sex at baseline and also 3 months after the program ends.

BEHAVIORAL

Eat Smart

Eat Smart (ES) is an interactive nutrition education intervention. Groups of girls are randomly assigned to ES or Your Move, an interactive sex education intervention. Each program consist of seven 75-minute sessions, and each session contains 60 minutes of facilitator-led discussion, video clips, activities, and games as well as 15 minutes of "personal reflection" time during which girls practice the decision making skills they have learned. Participants complete online surveys about their attitudes, knowledge, and behavior related to food and nutrition and relationships and sex at baseline and also 3 months after the program ends.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• ETR Associates

  collaborator OTHER

• Carnegie Mellon University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Julie Downs, PhD · Carnegie Mellon University

• Pam Murray, MD, MHP · West Virginia University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

14 Years

Max Age

19 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-10-01

Primary Completion

2020-12-31

Completion

2020-12-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations