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The principal objective of Tennessee Youth Prepared for Success is to pilot, implement, and test innovative adolescent pregnancy prevention strategies using a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to effectively educate youth on both abstinence and contraception with the goal of reducing youth pregnancies, births, and STIs. Tennessee Youth Prepared for Success will address Adulthood Preparation Subjects (APS) to promote youths' successful and healthy transition to adulthood; include a Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach to engage youth and provide positive influences and skill building opportunities; and implement activities/interventions within a trauma-informed approach to account for the mental health needs of those who have experienced maltreatment, abuse, or violence. The project's goals and principal and subordinate objectives align with the PREIS program's goals/objectives and purpose, including (1) targeting high-risk youth to prevent pregnancy and STIs, including HIV/AIDS; (2) rigorously evaluating interventions using an RCT; (3) manualizing/packaging curriculum; and (4) disseminating lessons learned, best practices, and relevant findings. Tennessee Youth Prepared for Success will serve 1,200 youth ages 14-19 in 9 primarily rural counties in East/Middle/West Tennessee, targeting high-risk/vulnerable youth, including rural youth, those residing in counties with high teen birth rates, and/or hard-to-reach youth (e.g., systems-involved).


Clinical Trial Description

Tennessee Youth Prepared for Success will implement a promising curricula Be In Charge (BIC) for the treatment group, while the control group will receive the Adolescent Health Curriculum. BIC is an abstinence-based sexual health education program developed by Centerstone prevention staff in 2014 to increase a youth's sexual health knowledge and skills for responsible decision-making. It is built upon the idea of building healthy relationship skills and information to help inform responsible choices regarding sexual experiences, and it has been refined since that time with input from key stakeholders from similar target populations/geographic areas (e.g., youth, parents, school personnel). The 7 units of curriculum fit in with the theory of planned behavior where the educational components of the BiC intervention are designed to impact knowledge, attitudes, norms, and perceived control over sexual health related outcomes (i.e., sexual intercourse and contraception usage), ultimately influencing intention and behavior. The curricula is trauma-informed and integrate a PYD approach through creation of safe environments, engagement of youth through creative activities, and facilitation of progressive skill-building. Tennessee Youth Prepared for Success will be guided by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education, which assists sexual health educators in delivering comprehensive, age/culturally/developmentally- appropriate and medically accurate messages. Adulthood Preparation Subjects (APS) will be directed by ACF's Adult Preparation Subjects Resource Guide. Primary research questions include: (1) Do behavioral intentions to delay sexual initiation vary from pre-test to 1-year follow up? To what extent does this pattern vary based on assigned treatment condition?; (2) What is the relationship between assigned treatment condition and pregnancy rates reported at 1-year follow up?; (3) How does likelihood of abstinence and contraception use change following delivery of the intervention? To what extent does this vary based on assigned treatment condition? A series of secondary research questions seek to understand outcomes related to implementation, theoretical constructs associated with behavior, and life skill changes. The secondary questions include: (1) To what degree were facilitators/educators able to implement the intervention/BiC with fidelity?; and (2) How do sexual health knowledge (e.g., HIV/STIs, teen pregnancy), healthy relationship skills, healthy life skills, attitudes/values about adolescent development, and parent-child communication change over time for Tennessee Youth Prepared for Success participants? How does this effect vary by mode of intervention (i.e., Be In Charge vs. Adolescent Health Curriculum)? The proposed evaluation study seeks to establish the efficacy of a teen pregnancy prevention program tailored to the specific needs of Tennessee Youth Prepared for Success' population subgroups (e.g., rural youth), thus supporting efforts to address health disparities in teenage pregnancies. In this randomized control, experimental study, participants will be randomly assigned to receive either BIC (i.e., treatment group) or the Adolescent Health Curriculum (i.e., control/comparison group). Through comparison of key program outcomes, this project seeks to establish that BIC is (1) more effective the Adolescent Health Curriculum in decreasing pregnancy rates, delaying sexual initiation, and increasing abstinence/contraception use and (2) implemented with a higher degree of fidelity, reflective of its tailoring to current medical accuracy standards and subpopulation needs. Classrooms/community groups will be matched at the organizational level to mitigate confounding variables (e.g., geographic area, age, demographics). ;


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NCT number NCT06001892
Study type Interventional
Source Centerstone Research Institute
Contact Jordan L Nelon, PhD, MPH
Phone 2147332946
Email jordan.nelon@centerstone.org
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date September 25, 2023
Completion date May 31, 2026

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