EmpowHer is a Gender-specific Teen Pregnancy Prevention Curriculum for Middle School-aged Girls.

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Abstinence, Sex
• Interventions: Behavioral: The intervention curriculum addresses sexual activity, abstinence, and adulthood preparation topics.

• Registration Number: NCT06217809
• Lead Sponsor: Alternatives For Girls

Brief Summary

Alternatives For Girls (AFG's) EmpowHer curriculum is a program for pre-and early middle school girls (ages 10-15). The curriculum is gender-specific (girls), youth-co-led, and innovative (using online platforms and digitized presentation of material that targets minority/high-risk African American and Latina girls). EmpowHer addresses four adulthood preparation subjects (APS), such as parent-child communication, healthy relationships, adolescent development, and healthy life skills, and is implemented as an after-school program.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-02-22
• Study First Submitted: 2023-12-28
• Status Verified: 2024-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-01-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-01-11
• Study First Posted: 2024-01-23
• Last Update Posted: 2024-01-23
• Primary Completion: 2026-01-30
• Study Completion: 2026-09-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 552

Inclusion Criteria

Females in 6th - 8th grade who are 10 -15 years of age at the start of the study and residing in Detroit or Out Wayne County at the time of enrollment will be eligible to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

Participants who are currently utilizing other services from Alternatives For Girls (AFG) will not be eligible to participate and will be wait-listed until they are no longer receiving other services from AFG (i.e., after-school programs, summer day camps, mentoring, youth leadership programs, and shelter services). These services are unrelated to the study/sexual health education and do not include EmpowHer or Sassy Science. If siblings were to be enrolled, one would be randomly assigned, and the rest would be allowed to participate in the same group as the study sibling but not counted in the evaluation. This is to prevent possible contamination between conditions.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
EmpowHer	The intervention curriculum addresses sexual activity, abstinence, and adulthood preparation topics.	The intervention curriculum is designed to address sexual activity, abstinence, and adulthood preparation topics.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Recent sexual activity	At 9-month follow up.	Do participants in a female-specific curriculum model (EmpowHer) show reduced rates of sexual activity at 9-month follow up compared to those in a control curriculum (Sassy Science)?
Abstinence	At 9-month follow up.	Do participants in a female-specific curriculum model (EmpowHer) show increased rates of abstinence at (a) 6-month follow-up, and (b) 9-month follow up compared to those in control curriculum (Sassy Science)?

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Healthy relationship knowledge	After 20-hour intervention (at post-test).	Do participants in a female-specific curriculum model (EmpowHer) show increased healthy relationship knowledge at post-test compared to those in a control curriculum (Sassy Science)?

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Alternatives For Girls; 🇺🇸 Detroit, Michigan, United States