Testing the Effectiveness of Relationship Smarts Curriculum and the Effects of Enhanced Facilitator Training
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 撤回
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Knowledge about Healthy Relationships
研究概览
简要总结
This project will test the effectiveness of offering healthy marriage and relation education for youth as part of the regular school curriculum and examine whether providing enhanced training and support for facilitators shows promise for enhancing the effects on high school students. The evaluation will examine a range of students' relationship outcomes, including their attitudes toward relationships, their knowledge of healthy relationships, their communication skills, and the characteristics of their current relationship.
详细描述
Family Bridges will deliver the "Relationship Smarts +" program to students at 10 Chicago-area high schools. The RS+ curriculum will be delivered to 9th grade students in the target schools and classrooms during the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. The curriculum's 12 sessions will be delivered over a period of about 12 weeks during the winter quarter, with an average of one session taught per week.The lessons cover topics such as personal values, the principals of smart relationships, communication and conflict management, and sexual decision making. Using a three-arm randomized controlled trial design, this study will test the effectiveness of offering RS+ as part of the regular school curriculum on the students' knowledge of healthy relationships, their communication skills, and the characteristics of their current relationship. In addition to testing the effects of the curriculum, the study will also test the effects of providing enhanced training and support to facilitators.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- — 至 17 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Students must be age 17 or younger
- •have consent from a parent or guardian for evaluation activities
- •provide assent for evaluation activities.
排除标准
- •Students in evaluation classrooms who do not meet these criteria will still receive programming, but will not be included in the STREAMS data collection activities or in the study's analysis.
研究组 & 干预措施
Control
Control group members will receive an alternate curriculum that is not related to relationship education. Family Bridges has identified a computer programming curriculum, Codeacademy, that teaches students how to use HTML.
干预措施: Codeacademy (Behavioral)
RS+
The RS+ curriculum's 12 sessions will be delivered over a period of about 12 weeks during the winter quarter, with an average of one session taught per week. The lessons cover topics such as personal values, the principals of smart relationships, communication and conflict management, and sexual decision making.
干预措施: RS+ (Behavioral)
RS+ with enhanced facilitator support
The RS+ curriculum's 12 sessions will be delivered over a period of about 12 weeks during the winter quarter, with an average of one session taught per week. The lessons cover topics such as personal values, the principals of smart relationships, communication and conflict management, and sexual decision making. Affiliates assigned to this enhanced treatment group will participate in enhanced facilitator training and support activities.
干预措施: RS+ (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Knowledge about Healthy Relationships
时间窗: 1 year follow-up
audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices.
Attitudes about Healthy Relationships
时间窗: 1 year follow-up
audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices.
Knowledge about Healthy Relationships
时间窗: end of programming (approx. 12 weeks after beginning of programming )
audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices.
Attitudes about Healthy Relationships
时间窗: end of programming (approx. 12 weeks after beginning of programming )
audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices.
次要结局
- Communications skills(1 year follow-up)
- Characteristics of current romantic relationship(1 year follow-up)
- Communications skills(end of programming (approx. 12 weeks after beginning of programming ))
- Characteristics of current romantic relationship(end of programming (approx. 12 weeks after beginning of programming ))