DOI: 10.3886/icpsr39494.v1
title: Components Study of Relationship Education and Leadership Essentials Data, United States, 2022-2023
title: Version 1

description: In September 2020, the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) funded an exploratory implementation and outcome study to understand the components of REAL Essentials Advance (REA), a popular relationship education program intended for youth in high school.
The REA study occurred over two school years (2021-22 and 2022-23) and involved 27 schools with a total of 1,301 youth participating in cohorts during spring and fall 2022. Each school implemented a different collection of lessons (a scope and sequence) from the REA program, and a total of 40 different scope and sequences were observed in the study. The expectation was that variation in student experiences of lessons across these scopes and sequences would produce variation in levels of outcome improvement (e.g., a school that primarily offered lessons that focused on emotional regulation would tend to show larger improvement in emotional regulation outcomes than a school that did not offer these lessons).
description: The purpose of the study is to identify the individual components that matter most in promoting positive health behaviors and outcomes among adolescents.
description: This is a complex descriptive study with a large number of quantitative data sources.
description: The datasets contain variables about bullying experiences, drug and alcohol use, sexual health, site specific selection and ordering of lessons, and participants' understanding of sexual consent, and risky social media posting behavior. Demographic variables include race, ethnicity and sex.
description: Response Rates: The study required active parental consent for participation. In total, 1,301 youth (51 percent of the eligible sample) consented to participate in the study. Student-level data collection was only conducted among the subset of youth whose parents provided consent for the study.
Youth outcome surveys were collected at three timepoints:
 
In total, 1,059 youth responded to the baseline survey (81.4 percent of the consented sample)
1,080 youth responded to the immediate follow-up surveys (83.0 percent response rate)
1,037 youth completed the long-term follow-up survey (79.7 percent response rate)

Youth exit tickets were collected after each class period of REA programming (REA Session). Over 7,000 exit tickets were completed by youth participating in the study (73 percent response rate).
description: Presence of Common Scales: <strong>Youth Outcome Survey:</strong>
Several Likert-type scales were used. A full list of sources for scales in the instrument are included in the User Guide, Exhibits 3-5.
<strong>Youth Exit Ticket:</strong>
Items 1-4 are based on the youth engagement scale developed by Troy et al. 2020. For more information, please refer to the related literature.
description: This descriptive study did not include sampling.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Youth Outcome Survey Data
DS2: Youth Exit Tickets Data
DS3: Youth Focus Groups Data
DS4: Intended & Offered S&S Data
DS5: Facilitator Logs Data
DS6: Observation of Implementation Data
DS7: School Context File Data
DS8: Facilitator Characteristics Data
DS9: Youth Analysis Data
DS10: S&S Analysis Data
description: All high school age youth participating in a healthy relationship program during school.
description: coded on-site observation; face-to-face interview; paper and pencil interview (PAPI); web-based surveyFor more information on the study files, the nesting structure of the data files, and the constructed variables, please refer to the User Guide.