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Filter by:This study will implement and evaluate a mentoring program designed to promote positive youth development and reduce adverse outcomes among maltreated adolescents with open child welfare cases. Teenagers who have been maltreated are at heightened risk for involvement in delinquency, substance use, and educational failure as a result of disrupted attachments with caregivers and exposure to violence within their homes and communities. Although youth mentoring is a widely used prevention approach nationally, it has not been rigorously studied for its effects in preventing these adverse outcomes among maltreated youth involved in the child welfare system. This randomized controlled trial will permit us to implement and evaluate the Fostering Healthy Futures for Teens (FHF-T) program, which will use mentoring and skills training within an innovative positive youth development (PYD) framework to promote adaptive functioning and prevent adverse outcomes. Graduate student mentors will deliver 9 months of prevention programming in teenagers' homes and communities. Mentors will focus on helping youth set and reach goals that will improve their functioning in five targeted "REACH" domains: Relationships, Education, Activities, Career, and Health. In reaching those goals, mentors will help youth build social-emotional skills associated with preventing adverse outcomes (e.g., emotion regulation, communication, problem solving). The randomized controlled trial will enroll 234 racially and ethnically diverse 8th and 9th grade youth (117 intervention, 117 control), who will provide data at baseline prior to randomization, immediately post-program and 15 months post program follow-up. The aims of the study include testing the efficacy of FHF-T for high-risk 8th and 9th graders in preventing adverse outcomes and examining whether better functioning in positive youth development domains mediates intervention effects. It is hypothesized that youth randomly assigned to the FHF-T prevention condition, relative to youth assigned to the control condition, will evidence better functioning on indices of positive youth development in the REACH domains leading to better long-term outcomes, including adaptive functioning, high school graduation, career attainment/employment, healthy relationships, and quality of life.
N/E is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) multi-level, multi-component sexual and reproductive health (SRH) intervention, constructed on Ecological Systems Theory. N/E is based on Fort Peck tribal members' desire to implement a holistic SRH intervention for AI youth. N/E includes: 1) A school-based SRH curriculum called Native Stand, designed to address individual-level factors that lead to sexual risk behaviors; 2) a family-level curriculum called Native Voices, tailored to increase communication between adult family members and youth about SRH topics; 3) a cultural mentoring component at the community level that pairs AI youth with adults and elders to discuss traditional AI beliefs and practices about SRH; and 4) a mobilizing strategy to activate a multi-sectoral network of youth-servicing organizations at the systems level in Fort Peck to coordinate SRH services for AI youth. The overarching aim of this proposal is to refine, tailor, and finalize the components of N/E and evaluate its efficacy. We will use a cluster-randomized stepped-wedge design (SWD), in which 5 schools that AI youth from Fort Peck attend are the clusters to be randomized into the intervention 1 at a time, with all schools eventually being randomized to the intervention. The 5 schools are located in separate communities, mitigating the potential for cross-contamination. N/E is a 5-year study involving 456 14- to 18-year-old AI youth.
The goal of this efficacy study is to evaluate how different web-based resources affect parents' and children's sexual health knowledge; attitudes, efficacy, intentions, and behaviors about parent-adolescent communication; attitudes about media messages; and media message deconstruction skills. Parent consumer satisfaction with the resources will also be assessed.
The WHO defines sexual health as a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being, related to sexuality, not only the absence of illness, dysfunction or disability. To acquire and maintain adequate sexual health, the sexual rights of all people must be respected, protected and fully exercised. People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) present difficulties in the development of social interaction skills, among other problems that directly affect their sexual health. The consolidated prejudices and social myths related to the sexual affectivity of people with ASD, and in general to people with intellectual diversity, have meant that they do not pay any attention to the sexual health of this group in the assessment of their needs. Main objectives: to understand the experience lived by young people with ASD and their caregivers in relation to the affective needs during adolescence and to know the cognitive and behavioral expression of the affective dimension of adolescents with ASD. Mixed simultaneous design: qualitative based on the phenomenological paradigm, in order to establish the perceived needs of young adults with ASD, their families and the professionals who attend them, with the realization of focus groups and in-depth interviews. The second quantitative part will be developed in adolescents (12-18 years) and their families, evaluating the habitual behaviors and difficulties of Interaction in the affective expression, by means of questionnaires and self-administered scales. It will be necessary to sign the Informed Consent by all the participants, with the specific acceptance of the project by the CEIC of the investigator's center.
The purpose of this school-level randomized intervention trial is to evaluate the It's Your Game…Keep It Real program, an evidence-based teen pregnancy, HIV, and STI prevention program, among 2,000 students from 20 middle schools in 10 participating school districts in Harris County and surrounding areas. An audio computer-assisted self interview (A-CASI) assessment was used to assess demographic characteristics, psychosocial factors, sexual behaviors, and program exposure at three data collection points. Data was collected at baseline (preintervention), 6 months post intervention, and 12 months post intervention.
This is an exploratory pilot study to evaluate the feasibility and potential effects of an innovative, individualized electronic inpatient sexual health intervention (iRAP) for adolescent females. The central hypothesis is that the electronic intervention, a sexual health questionnaire with tailored feedback based on the Trans Theoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change, will significantly increase adolescent females' requests for sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and sexual health management during their hospital admission.
Decreased muscle mass (sarcopenia) and strength (dynapenia) are common during aging, with a rate of muscle mass loss that is approximately 6% per decade between 30 and 70 years of age. Muscle mass loss results in reduced strength and physical function (frailty), increased risk for falls and bone fractures, and decreased quality of life. The age-related decrease in testosterone plays a key role in the loss of muscle mass and strength for aging males. There is increasing interest in nutritional and exercise strategies to prevent aging-related losses in muscle mass and strength. Sexual dysfunction has a high prevalence among men (31%), and include erectile difficulties (10%), lack of interest in sex (9%), and inability to achieve orgasm (7%). There are multiple causes including low testosterone. There is growing interest in natural supplements, and this study will compare under double blind procedures two natural supplements with placebo (Men's Perfect Multi Formula and Andro Vitality) that have been formulated by Purity Products. The supplements contain micronutrients, plant extracts, and herbs, with the primary bioactives Rhaponticum carthamoides and magnesium. Rhaponticum carthamoides, commonly known as maral root or Russian leuzea, is a perennial herb that grows in South Siberia, and has been used to enhance muscular and sexual function, but more evidence from properly designed human trials is needed to determine both efficacy and safety. The purpose of this study using a randomized, parallel group design, is to evaluate the effect of two supplements relative to placebo on strength, serum free and total testosterone levels, sexual function, mood state, and quality of life compared to placebo over a 6-week period in 120 males.
The study evaluated if interactive theater in school sex education affects student knowledge, attitudes and behavior regarding condom use. The intervention group got a play, value exercises, chlamydia games, condom school and interactive replay with professional actors and staff from a youth guidance center. The control group got standard sex education from school staff, based on the education guidelines of the Swedish National Agency for Education.
This study will design and rigorously evaluate the efficacy of Project Legacy, a five week positive youth development intervention to decrease sexual risk for unintended pregnancies and STIs among youth experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness aged 14-19. This randomized control trial will compare Project Legacy to a usual services control.
Heart to Heart is a brief pregnancy prevention training program delivered to foster and kinship caregivers to prevent unintended pregnancy in foster youth. The training delivers easy to understand information on sexual health, contraception, and adolescent development. It also includes a brief behavioral training, and information on effective communication, monitoring strategies, and social support. The curriculum was piloted in Los Angeles. Investigators will test the intervention in a randomized control trial.