The 'If I Were Jack' feasibility trial

Completed

• Conditions: nintended teenage pregnancy; Pregnancy and Childbirth

• Registration Number: ISRCTN11632300
• Lead Sponsor: Queen's University Belfast (UK)

Brief Summary

2014 protocol in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25284956 2016 results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27473584 2018 results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30022356

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-12-19
• Study Completion: 2016-04-30
• Last Update Posted: 20 August 2018

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 630

Inclusion Criteria

Feasibility trial: All post-primary schools in Northern Ireland with more than 30 Year 11 pupils will be eligible to participate, with the exception of Special Schools, Hospital Schools, Independent Schools and Junior high schools. All pupils who are entering Year 11 in 2013/14 in eligible schools will be eligible for the study.

Process evaluation with staff and parents: School principals, Heads of Year 11 and teachers who deliver the intervention and agree to participate in the research will be included in the proposed process evaluation. Additionally, all parents of participating pupils will be asked to complete a questionnaire giving their views of the intervention and a sample of those who attend parents'/guardians' information evenings will be invited to participate in a focus group discussion on the acceptability and feasibility of the intervention. Parents who are unable to communicate in English will be facilitated by university translation services.

Exclusion Criteria

Feasibility trial: Special Schools, Hospital Schools, Independent Schools and Junior high schools will be excluded from the sampling frame. Pupils who refuse to participate or pupils whose parents refuse to allow them to participate will be excluded. The principal analyses will be intention-to-treat but pupils who are absent at baseline and/or follow-up and fail to fill out a questionnaire on their return to school will be excluded from on-treatment analyses.

Process evaluation with staff and parents: Those who decline to participate will be excluded.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Quality of intervention implementation and recruitment, participation and retention rates<br>2. Assessing fidelity to implementation protocol and differences in recruitment, participation and retention rates among those in intervention and comparison arms