Evaluating the El Camino Program

Child Trends

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexual Behavior; Adolescent Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: El Camino; Behavioral: Life skills program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06485284

TP2AH000077

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the impacts of El Camino, a goal-setting sexual health promotion program targeted toward Latino adolescents. The primary research questions are:

• Research Question 1: Is participation in the El Camino goal setting program associated with greater abstinence (measured as never had sex, no recent sexual activity) relative to a comparison group that did not receive El Camino?
• Research Question 2: Is participation in El Camino associated with reduced unprotected sex (measured as sex without any method of contraception, sex without a condom) for the intervention group relative to the comparison group?

Researchers will compare those who received El Camino to a comparison group who received an alternative program that does not include sexual health components.

As part of the study, participants will be asked to:

• Attend approximately 11 hours of programming completed over 11 weeks
• Complete baseline, post-intervention, and 12-month follow-up surveys
• For select participants who received the El Camino program, participate in an optional focus group discussion

Enrollment: 746 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 21 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• High school student in Montgomery County, MD
• Have not previously received El Camino during pilot study
• Have parental consent (if under 18)
• Agree to be in study

Exclusion criteria

• Previously participated in pilot study and received El Camino curriculum
• No parental consent (if under 18)
• Do not agree to be in study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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746 participants in 2 patient groups

El Camino

Experimental group

Description:

Adolescents receiving the intervention/treatment - El Camino.

Treatment:

Behavioral: El Camino

Control

Other group

Description:

Adolescents receiving the control - alternative life skills program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Life skills program