Evaluation of the "Yes You Can... Make Smart Choices!" Curriculum
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 2,600
- 试验地点
- 26
- 主要终点
- Sexual Activity
研究概览
简要总结
The New Jersey Physicians Advisory Group (NJPAG) previously created the Yes You Can...Make Smart Choices! (YYC...MSC!) program with the goal of preventing teen pregnancy and enhancing character development in youth. YYC...MSC! is a fully developed intervention that NJPAG has experience implementing that is grounded in a theoretical framework with promising evidence of effectiveness. However, this intervention has not yet undergone a rigorous evaluation with a control or comparison group. This evaluation aims to conduct a randomized control trial (RCT) to determine the program's effectiveness. This evaluation will focus on the entire PREIS planned intervention, YYC...MSC!. The intervention will be implemented in 13 Newark Public Schools in New Jersey, including Weequahic High School and Newark School of Global Studies. Findings from this study will expand the evidence base on adolescent pregnancy prevention through this innovative program. After the study, findings will be disseminated to encourage program interest, support, and adoption in real-world service systems or communities, including schools.
The primary research question is, "What is the effect of the 2-week YYC...MSC! program on 9th grade students in Northeast urban school districts' reports of engaging in sexual intercourse 12-months after the pre-survey compared to those that do not receive the program?" The outcome for the primary research questions is sexual intercourse in the last 3 months and the domain is sexual activity.
详细描述
Introduction
The New Jersey Physicians Advisory Group (NJPAG) previously created the Yes You Can...Make Smart Choices! (YYC...MSC!) program with the goal of preventing teen pregnancy and enhancing character development in youth. YYC...MSC! is a fully developed intervention that NJPAG has experience implementing that is grounded in a theoretical framework with promising evidence of effectiveness. However, this intervention has not yet undergone a rigorous evaluation with a control or comparison group. This evaluation aims to conduct a randomized control trial (RCT) to determine the program's effectiveness. This evaluation will focus on the entire PREIS planned intervention, YYC...MSC!. The intervention will be implemented in 13 Newark Public Schools in New Jersey, including Weequahic High School and Newark School of Global Studies. Findings from this study will expand the evidence base on adolescent pregnancy prevention through this innovative program. After the study, findings will be disseminated to encourage program interest, support, and adoption in real-world service systems or communities, including schools.
Intervention Activities
The YYC...MSC! is an 11-lesson curriculum that will be delivered to 9th graders in Newark, New Jersey public schools during 40-minute health classes. The curriculum will be delivered in-person over approximately 2 weeks by NJPAG educators. The goal of the program is to prevent teen pregnancy and enhance character development in youth. The PREIS funding is supporting the implementation and evaluation of the program. Each time an NJPAG educator is in the classroom, they will deliver a single lesson of the curriculum. All NJPAG educators have received internal training for the program; their training includes: (1) studying the curriculum and completing activity/learning pages, (2) practicing teaching to other educator in a mock classroom setting, followed by feedback from the team, (3) observing a seasoned educator teaching the curriculum in its entirety, (4) co-teach the curriculum with a seasoned educator, and (5) teaching on their own, with observation. YYC...MSC! is delivered like a traditional classroom curriculum, including lectures and activities, meaning all students in a given classroom will receive the lectures concurrently. The intervention addresses the following adult preparation subjects: parent-child communication, healthy relationships, healthy life skills, adolescent development, and financial literacy.
Logic Model
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 10 Years 至 21 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Youth served and recruited will be limited to 9th graders from health classrooms at the NPS sites participating in this program who do not have severe cognitive, mental, or behavioral impairments. Students with an Individual Education Plan (IEP) who are in a restricted placement due to such issues will not be able to participate in the program as they will not be a part of the mainstream classrooms where the program will take place. Students with an IEP who are placed in regular classroom settings (i.e., mainstreamed) will be included in the program.
- •New Jersey law only requires passive parental consent to be obtained, using a written notice about the evaluation provided to students to bring home with an option for parents to sign the notice to opt their child/student out of the evaluation. If parents wish to opt their child/student out of the evaluation, the child will still receive the program because it is the Newark Board of Education-approved sexual education curriculum treatment group health classes. When the Educator goes back to the classroom to pre-survey, they will collect any 'opt-out' notices and survey only those students whose parents have not elected to 'opt-out' their child.
- •Ineligible students include students with IEP who are in a restricted placement and students that bring back 'opt-out' written notices. Since we are using the same form for treatment and control schools (making it unclear to parents what group their child is in), we do not expect differences in opt-out rates between treatment and control schools.
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Sexual Activity
时间窗: 12-months after pre-survey
Individual participants: Survey - sexual intercourse in the last 3 months. 1-item measure asking participants how many times they engaged in sexual intercourse in the past 3-months recoded to a dummy variable (1 = had sex in the last 3-months, 0 = did not have sex in the last 3-months)
次要结局
- Sexual Activity 1(3-months after pre-survey, 12-months after pre-survey)
- Sexual Activity 2(3-months after pre-survey, 12-months after pre-survey)
- Intent to Engage in Sexual Activity 1(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Sexual Risk Avoidance Intent 2(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Sexual Risk Avoidance 1(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Life Skills 1(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Life Skills 4(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Intent to Engage in Sexual Activity 2(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Sexual Risk Avoidance Intent 1(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Sexual Risk Avoidance 3(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Sexual Risk Avoidance 2(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Sexual Risk Avoidance Skills(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Life Skills 2(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Life Skills 3(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Sexual Health Knowledge(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Life Skills 5(Post-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
- Sexual Activity(3-months after pre-survey)
- Life Skills 6(ost-survey, 3 months after pre-survey, 12 months after pre-survey)
研究者
Cindy M. Walker, PhD
Founder and CEO
Research Analytics Consulting, LLC