Empowering Girls: Health-seeking Behavior, Staying in School, and Preventing Risky Sex

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Pregnancy Related; Behavior, Health
• Interventions: Behavioral: Low tech health Phone + SMS messages; Behavioral: Low tech health SMS messages

• Registration Number: NCT05022277
• Lead Sponsor: Young 1ove

Brief Summary

This study will test the effectiveness of a phone-based big sister/big brother program designed to provide health information and support, reduce school dropouts, and promote safer relationships.

The program's goal is to create a phone-based safe space, to ensure adolescents remained connected with access to support and health information during COVID lockdowns.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-04-28
• Status Verified: 2021-08
• Study First Submitted: 2021-08-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-08-19
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-08-19
• Study First Posted: 2021-08-26
• Last Update Posted: 2021-08-26
• Primary Completion: 2021-10-20
• Study Completion: 2021-10-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2000

Inclusion Criteria

• Adolescent who provided their phone number to Young 1ove staff when prompted by their school; or their siblings/ other adolescents living in the same household.
• Parents and students consented to participate.

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Phone-based intervention Plus SMS messages	Low tech health Phone + SMS messages	-
SMS messages only	Low tech health SMS messages	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Share of students that have been or are pregnant and/or have dropped out of school	~6 months post-program	These two outcomes (using school administrative data on whether students have dropped out of school and were pregnant) will be combined into a composite variable equal to 1 if the student has become pregnant and/or has dropped out of school.
Share of students with the accurate belief that older partners have the highest risk of HIV compared to younger partners.	~4 weeks post program	Indicator variable from the survey question wording: "Who do you think has the highest risk of infecting you with HIV?"

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Share of students reporting that they make the final decision in their life about visiting a Sexual and reproductive health clinic	~4 weeks post program	Indicator variable from the survey question response
Share of students reporting that if they or their partner were pregnant, they would tell the data collector	~4 weeks post program	Indicator variable coded 1 if student answered likely or very likely to 'If you were pregnant, how likely would you be to tell me?'

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Young 1ove; 🇧🇼 Gaborone, Botswana