City of Rochester Teen Outreach Program (TOP™) Evaluation

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Academic Underachievement Disorder of Childhood or Adolescence; Adolescent Problems; Sex Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Control intervention; Behavioral: TOP

• Registration Number: NCT02723292
• Lead Sponsor: University of Rochester

Brief Summary

As part of a 5-year national effort to reduce teen pregnancy, the University of Rochester is partnering with the City of Rochester Department of Recreation and Youth Services to evaluate the City's replication of the Teen Outreach Program (TOP™) for 11-14 year old youth registered at 11 selected Recreation Centers (RCs). A youth development program with demonstrated efficacy to reduce teen pregnancy, school failure and drop-out rates, TOP™ has never been studied in RCs. Advancing from efficacy to effectiveness, the investigators will also measure program fidelity obtained in RCs.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-09
• Study First Submitted: 2016-02-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-03-23
• Study First Posted: 2016-03-30
• Primary Completion: 2016-04
• Study Completion: 2016-04
• Status Verified: 2018-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-02-08
• Last Update Posted: 2018-02-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1188

Inclusion Criteria

• must be registered at a participating RC
• age 11 through 14 years
• participants must assent and parent(s) or legal guardian(s) provide permission to participate
• basic understanding of the English language

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Exclusion Criteria

• age at enrollment of less than 11 or greater than 14 years
• for facilitators, age less than 21 is an exclusion criterion

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control group services	Control intervention	Youth in the control arm will receive a work readiness training curriculum focused on competencies to secure employment. This will include such topics as building customer service skills, clear and direct communication, and creating a work portfolio.
Experimental group services	TOP	This study will replicate the evidence-based TOP™ in after-school sessions held during RC hours. The primary components of TOP™ include: Comprehensive age-appropriate sexuality education; 90-minute sessions, once a week after-school, during the school year for nine months, using the Changing Scenes© curriculum, and at least twenty hours of youth-led service learning, which involves youth in planning, implementing and reflecting on, community service and leadership.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of participants who become pregnant	21 months
Number of youth who report ever having had sexual intercourse	21 months	For youth who were sexually naive at baseline, the outcome is the number of youth who report ever having had sexual intercourse at the 21 month assessment point.
Amount of sexual intercourse in preceding 3 months without an effective means of birth control	21 months	The number of times a youth reports having had sexual intercourse without using an effective means of birth control measured at the 21 month assessment point.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of failing grades on report card	21 months	This is a self-report measure of the number of courses failed on the last report card received, measured at the 21 month assessment point.