Evaluation of Peer Group Connection

NCT03240887 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 6 TP2AH000037-01-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,523
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

A randomized controlled trial is being conducted in high schools in North Carolina and New York City to determine the impact of a school-based, positive youth development program on sexual behaviors associated with teen pregnancy

Conditions

Pregnancy in Adolescence

Keywords

Teen pregnancy prevention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Sexual initiation

  The measure is operationalized as a dichotomous outcome, where 1 = participant has had sex, 0 = participant has never had sex. One questionnaire item measures sexual initiation: Have you ever had any type of sex (oral, vaginal, or anal)?

  1 year after baseline, or the beginning of the 10th grade

• Frequency of sex

  The outcome is operationalized as the count of the number of times a participant reports having had any type of sex in the past 3 months. One questionnaire item measures frequency of sex: In the past 3 months, how many times have you had any type of sex?

  1 year after baseline, or the beginning of the 10th grade

• Number of sexual partners

  The outcome is operationalized as the count of the number of sexual partners a participant reports having in the past 3 months. Two questionnaire items are used to measure the number of sexual partners questions. The first item asks the participant with whom they have had sexual contact during their life, and if sexual contact with any gender is reported, the second item subsequently asks how many sexual partners they have had in the past three months.

  1 year after baseline, or the beginning of the 10th grade

Study Arms (2)

Peer Group Connection (PGC)

EXPERIMENTAL

Ninth-grade participants are assigned to small groups of 10-14 students that attend weekly peer group outreach sessions led by older peer leaders.

Behavioral: Peer Group Connection

Business as usual

NO INTERVENTION

Ninth grade students remain in their regularly scheduled school classes or activities during PGC outreach times.

Interventions

Peer Group Connection BEHAVIORAL

Faculty advisors at each participating high school are trained to run the program and teach a daily leadership course to peer leaders. Eleventh and twelfth-grade peer leaders who participate in the daily leadership development class facilitate outreach sessions with their assigned group of ninth graders. PGC can be offered in either a half-year (semester) or full-year format. In either format, a minimum of 18, 45-minute outreach sessions are expected to be offered to PGC participants during the course of their ninth-grade year. Outreaches are created to facilitate the transition to high school and encourage students to attend school, set goals for themselves, and make healthy decisions.

Peer Group Connection (PGC)

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Be enrolled at a study school
• Provide parental consent and personal assent to participate in the study
• Meet basic requirements for data collection (students must have the ability to complete a self-administered Participant Questionnaire, which is available in English and Spanish, in a classroom or group setting, unassisted, in 60 minutes or less.)
• Be entering the ninth grade for the first time.

You may not qualify if:

• Be intending to enroll in a non-study school in ninth grade.
• Be repeating ninth grade.
• Be unable to complete the questionnaire without assistance.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Policy & Research Group: lead
• The Office of Adolescent Health, HHS: collaborator
• Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

The Policy & Research Group

New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Eric Jenner, Ph.D.

  The Policy & Research Group

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 27, 2017
• First Posted: August 7, 2017
• Study Start: April 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2019
• Study Completion: June 1, 2021
• Last Updated: November 17, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Time Frame: The individual participant dataset will become available twelve months after the study has concluded.

Locations

US (1)