Impact/Interest of a Collective Prevention Intervention in Sexual and Emotional Health

Public Health Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Impact/Interest of a Collective Prevention Intervention in Sexual and Emotional Health Among High School Students in Lower Normandy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06400758
• Other study ID #: 20240205
• Status: Completed
• Start date: March 14, 2024
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: Pole Sante Grace de Dieu
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Main objective To measure the effects of a group prevention intervention on the sexual and affective knowledge of high school students in the Basse-Normandie region.

Secondary objective Take stock of what is known about the sexual and emotional health of teenagers.

Description:

With the average age at first sexual intercourse in France being 17.6 for girls and 17.2 for boys, according to the 2010 health barometer, sexuality education and prevention seem essential at this age, and upstream.

An Australian qualitative study of young men aged 18 to 24 revealed that the main obstacles to discussing sexual health in general practice included the possibility of embarrassment and the fact that the subject was private. Most said they would only talk to their doctor about a sexual problem if it was very important or urgent: if not, they would prefer to wait for the doctor to initiate the subject.

Sexual health prevention initiatives are therefore essential outside the general practitioner's office, and have been shown to be effective in high schools. This is why the PSLA de la Grâce de Dieu has initiated sexual and emotional health prevention initiatives for students at a high school in Caen.

It therefore seemed interesting to assess these students' knowledge of sexual and emotional health before the PSLA's intervention in the amphitheatre with the students, and then after the intervention, in order to find out whether this large-scale prevention action had an impact on these students' knowledge, in the short and medium term.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 450
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 15 Years to 15 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• school students in the 2023-2024 school year

Exclusion Criteria:

• A newsletter was sent to the school's head teachers, the students' parents and the students themselves, informing them of the possible use of the data for research purposes, and the possibility of objecting. The principal teachers provided information on the non-obligation to respond during the distribution of the questionnaires. Students who did not respond to the questionnaire were therefore not included.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Public Health

Intervention

Other:
• questionary
A questionnaire, based on the main sexual health topics frequently discussed, was given to students by the school management prior to an intervention. The preventive intervention consisted of comprehensive prevention on the emotional and sexual lives of adolescents. It was carried out by health professionals and was based on questions from the students, who were able to leave their questions anonymously in a box in the school infirmary for several months. These questions were collected and used to identify several themes for discussion: emotional life, with notions of affection, love, friendship and the notion of "normality", as well as consent and sexual violence physical and sexual aspects, with reminders of the menstrual cycle, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy and abortion. The same questionnaire was given to students after the intervention, to check whether the prevention intervention had improved their general knowledge.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	PSLA GDD	Caen

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Pole Sante Grace de Dieu

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Rate of knowledge improvement between before and after the intervention	the accuracy of correct answers between before and after intervention	1 year