Empowering Girls: Health-seeking Behavior, Staying in School, and Preventing Risky Sex

Young 1ove

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pregnancy Related; Behavior, Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Low tech health Phone + SMS messages; Behavioral: Low tech health SMS messages

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05022277

Y1HPDME2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will test the effectiveness of a phone-based big sister/big brother program designed to provide health information and support, reduce school dropouts, and promote safer relationships.

The program's goal is to create a phone-based safe space, to ensure adolescents remained connected with access to support and health information during COVID lockdowns.

Enrollment: 2,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescent who provided their phone number to Young 1ove staff when prompted by their school; or their siblings/ other adolescents living in the same household.
• Parents and students consented to participate.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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2,000 participants in 3 patient groups

Phone-based intervention Plus SMS messages

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Low tech health Phone + SMS messages

SMS messages only

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Low tech health SMS messages

Control

No Intervention group