Capacity Builders Inc. Navajo Youth Builders Personal Responsibility Education Innovation Strategies Project

Summary

Capacity Builders (CBI) will implement the Youth Builders PREIS curriculum Native Students Together Against Negative Decisions (Native STAND) which aims to reduce pregnancies, births, and sexually transmitted infections (STI's) including HIV/AIDS among high-risk youth populations by implementing culturally sensitive curriculum based on Navajo positive youth development. The study has two hypotheses: (1) Do students assigned to the Youth Builders program have a greater chance of abstaining from sexual activity (i.e. oral, vaginal and anal) in the last 3 months as compared to students assigned to the comparison group, measured at 12 month and 18 month follow up? (No vaginal sexual intercourse, report abstinence at 12 and 18 random assignment month follow up); (2) Do students assigned to the Youth Builders program have a greater change of abstaining from sex or practicing safe sex (i.e. using a male or female condom, or other means of birth control if they have sex), than students assigned to the comparison group, measured at 12 and 18 months after random assignment? (No sexual activity or use contraception if engage in sex at 12 month and 18 month follow up.

Conditions

• Sexual Abstinence
• Responsible Sex

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Native STAND

Native STAND is a comprehensive sexual health curriculum for Native high school students that focuses on sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, and teen pregnancy prevention, while also covering drug and alcohol use, suicide, and dating violence. Twenty-seven sessions support healthy decision-making through interactive discussions and activities that promote diversity, self-esteem, goals and values, team building, negotiation and refusal skills, and effective communication. Sessions will be conducted in regular Physical Education and/or Health Education classes during classroom/school hours.

BEHAVIORAL

Regular Health/Physical Education Curriculum

General health and physical education curriculum provided by New Mexico's Public Education Department.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

  collaborator OTHER

• Family and Youth Services Bureau

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Capacity Builders Inc.

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Lois Ritter · Capacity Builders Inc.

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

14 Years

Max Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-10-24

Primary Completion

2021-02-01

Completion

2021-09-29

Countries

• United States

Study Locations