Making Healthy Decisions: A Trial Evaluating the "Your Move" Teen Pregnancy-prevention Intervention
Condition: Pregnancy, Abdominal; Sexual Behavior; Sexually Transmitted Infection; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Dietary Modification; Eating Behaviors
MeSH terms: Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Pregnancy, Abdominal
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      The purpose of Making Healthy Decisions is to design and rigorously evaluate a new sexual
      health education program, "Your Move" (YM) against a nutrition control program, "Eat Smart"
      (ES). YM is intended to improve teen females' (ages 14-19) ability to make healthy sexual
      decisions with the ultimate goal of reducing unplanned pregnancies and STIs.
    

Detailed description: 
      Making Healthy Decisions includes two technology-based interventions designed to improve teen
      females' healthy decision making in relation to sexual relationships (YM) and nutrition (ES).

      Health educators from Planned Parenthood are trained to implement both YM and ES at
      youth-serving community organizations in their geographic area across several U.S. states. In
      a multi-site randomized controlled trial, females ages 14-19 are recruited from their local
      community-based organization (CBO) into groups/cohorts of 8-12.

      Each cohort is randomly assigned to participate in one of the two interventions prior to
      baseline data collection.

      Participants attend seven 75-minute program sessions that include facilitator-led games,
      activities, and discussions as well as personal reflection time in which girls practiced
      healthy decision making individually on an electronic tablet.

      Self-reported survey data related to attitudes, knowledge, and behavior around sex and
      nutrition are collected at baseline as well as 3 months after the intervention ends.
    

Intervention name(s): Your Move; Eat Smart
Intervention type(s): Behavioral; Behavioral
Intervention description(s): Your Move (YM) is an interactive sex education intervention. Groups of girls are randomly assigned to YM or Eat Smart (ES), a control interactive nutrition education intervention. Each program consist of seven 75-minute sessions, and each session contains 60 minutes of facilitator-led discussion, video clips, activities, and games as well as 15 minutes of "personal reflection" time during which girls practice the decision making skills they have learned. Participants complete online surveys about their attitudes, knowledge, and behavior related to food and nutrition and relationships and sex at baseline and also 3 months after the program ends.; Eat Smart (ES) is an interactive nutrition education intervention. Groups of girls are randomly assigned to ES or Your Move, an interactive sex education intervention. Each program consist of seven 75-minute sessions, and each session contains 60 minutes of facilitator-led discussion, video clips, activities, and games as well as 15 minutes of "personal reflection" time during which girls practice the decision making skills they have learned. Participants complete online surveys about their attitudes, knowledge, and behavior related to food and nutrition and relationships and sex at baseline and also 3 months after the program ends.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Prevention
Keywords: pregnancy; adolescents; sexually transmitted diseases; decision making; prevention education