Clinical trial NCT03114410: An Evaluation of Re:MIX: a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program With Young Parents as Peer Educators, EngenderHealth
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Sexual Behavior
Unprotected Sex
Lead sponsor: Child Trends
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: EngenderHealth
name: University of Texas at Austin
name: The Office of Adolescent Health, HHS
First posted: 2017-04-14
Enrollment: 621
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study uses a cluster-level randomized controlled design to evaluate the efficacy of Re:MIX in reducing the incidences of early sexual behavior, unprotected sex, oral sex, pregnancy, and STIs. Re:MIX is a comprehensive in-school health curriculum and teen pregnancy prevention program for adolescents covering a broad range of topics related to sexual health and youth development, including healthy relationships, communication, gender, consent, reproductive anatomy, contraception, sexual decision making, clinics, parenthood, and life planning. Re:MIX also aims to connect students and peer educators with community resources and service linkages. The Re:MIX curriculum teaches mixed-gender groups of students in grades 8 to 10 to delay sex and use protection if they have sex. A co-facilitation team of young parent educators delivered the information with professional health educators using non-traditional approaches, such as game-based tools, technology, and storytelling. Youth received roughly nine hours and 10 minutes of group sessions during the school day over one semester (55 minutes per week for 10 weeks). Participants were in 8th, 9th, and 10th graders attending three public charter schools in Travis County, Texas. Comparison classes either received an alternative program that focused on health, nutrition, and fitness, or business as usual. This study was conducted as a Rigorous Evaluation of New or Innovative Approaches to Prevent Teen Pregnancy funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Adolescent Health.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Students in 8-10th grade classrooms in three public charter schools in Travis County, Texas

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Ever had sexual intercourse
timeFrame: 12 months after baseline
measure: Unprotected sexual intercourse in the past 3 months.
timeFrame: 12 months after baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Intentions
timeFrame: 3 and 12 months after baseline
measure: Knowledge
timeFrame: 3 and 12 months after baseline
measure: Attitudes
timeFrame: 3 and 12 months after baseline
measure: Self-efficacy in avoiding unwanted/unprotected sex and communication with partners
timeFrame: 3 and 12 months after baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Austin
country: United States
facility: EngenderHealth
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: Child Trends, Senior Program Area Director
name: Jennifer Manlove, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: EngenderHealth: Project Director/Co-Principal Investigator
name: Monica Armendariz
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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