Clinical trial NCT03311061: Evaluation of Curriculum for Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Decisions, Responsibility, Empowerment, Accountability, Motivations & Success
Official title: Evaluation of Curriculum for Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Decisions, Responsibility, Empowerment, Accountability, Motivations & Success (DREAMS) in Houston TX
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Teen Pregnancy
Keywords: Teen Pregnancy
Prevention
Positive Youth Development
Financial Literacy
College and Career Readiness
School Based Intervention
Age 13-19
Behavior Modification
Lead sponsor: Winter Rose Services, LLC
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Department of Health and Human Services
First posted: 2017-10-16
Enrollment: 2000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 19
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Two groups of participants. group A will receive the DREAMS Curriculum intervention. Group B (Control group) will receive curriculum already in place at school.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The study is a an evaluation of the teen pregnancy prevention curriculum Decisions, Responsibility, Empowerment, Accountability, Motivations \& Success (DREAMS) through a random control trial. The evaluation will take place in high schools in the greater Houston area. Five cohorts of two classes each in ten HS schools will be used. Randomization will occur each semester for five semesters. Curriculum is ten modules in length delivered in 45 minute classes twice a week for five weeks.

Detailed description: The study is a an evaluation of the teen pregnancy prevention curriculum Decisions, Responsibility, Empowerment, Accountability, Motivations \& Success (DREAMS) through a random control trial. The evaluation will take place in high schools in the greater Houston area. Five cohorts of two classes each in ten HS schools will be used. Randomization will occur each semester for five semesters. Curriculum is ten modules in length delivered in 45 minute classes twice a week for five weeks.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Age 13-19; enrolled in participating high school health class; passive consent received;

Exclusion Criteria:

Students who enrolled in classes post baseline. Students who had previously failed the HS course and was already exposed to DREAMS curriculum.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of participants who had sex without a condom
timeFrame: immediately post-intervention, 6-months and 12-months-post intervention
measure: Number of participants who ever had sex
timeFrame: immediately post-intervention, 6-months and 12-months-post intervention
measure: Number of penile-vaginal sex acts
timeFrame: immediately post-intervention, 6-months and 12-months-post intervention
measure: Number of participants who used other birth control methods
timeFrame: immediately post-intervention, 6-months and 12-months-post intervention
measure: Number of participants who had an STI
timeFrame: immediately post-intervention, 6-months and 12-months-post intervention
measure: Number of participants who increased knowledge concerning risks associated with unprotected sex
timeFrame: immediately post intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of participants (by gender, age, and race/ethnicity) who had had a teenage pregnancy
timeFrame: 12-months-post intervention
measure: Number of participants who had had a teenage pregnancy
timeFrame: 12-months-post intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: Bee Busy Inc.
state: Texas
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