A Feasibility Trial of Sisterhood 2.0

Adolescent Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title: A Gender Transformative Program to Prevent Sexual Violence and Relationship Abuse Among Adolescent Women: A Feasibility Trial of Sisterhood 2.0

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This pilot quasi-experimental community based trial examines the feasibility of a sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse prevention program for girls aged 14-19. Feasibility is assessed through participant attendance, retention and program satisfaction measures and interviews are conducted at baseline, end of program and 3 month follow up (endline) about participant experiences.

Clinical Trial Description

The goal of the project is to adapt and pilot a "gender transformative," sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse prevention program, Sisterhood 2.0, among African American high school-age females in a community-based setting. The Sisterhood 2.0 curriculum was adapted from Program M, created in 2006 by Promundo to address health and empowerment of young women aged 15-24. The curriculum engages young women in questioning rigid and non-equitable stereotypes about masculinity and femininity and how these rigid stereotypes affect their health and well-being. This study will pilot test, using a quasi-experimental design, the participant satisfaction with the program through measures of attendance and retention, and be compared to a job skills development curriculum. This study is significant because there are too few evidence-based sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse prevention program in the U.S., none that are specifically tailored for African American adolescent females, and there are no evidence- based programs implemented in community settings that target both sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse and adolescent sexual health. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescent Behavior
• Communication, Personal
• Coping Skills
• Emotional Abuse
• Group, Peer
• Violence in Adolescence
• Violence, Domestic
• Violence, Non-accidental
• Violence, Physical
• Violence, Sexual

• NCT number: NCT04388696
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Pittsburgh
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 1, 2018
• Completion date: January 31, 2020