Evaluating the Impact of Online Educator Microskill Training on Educator Knowledge and Skill

Philliber Research & Evaluation

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV/AIDS Prevention; STI Prevention; Pregnancy Prevention

Treatments: Behavioral: SkillTalk

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05950828

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy of SkillTalk, a subscription-based microskills video training library designed to enhance the skills of high school sex educators to implement the frequently used core components of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) curricula.

The overall goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of SkillTalk on educators' demonstrable sexual health education skills.

Participants will be asked to:

• Complete a consent form.
• Attend two simulated classroom sessions, either in person or virtually, during which they will teach two prepared lessons that have will be provided to them.
• Be video recorded while teaching.
• Complete a baseline survey and a post-survey.
• If assigned to the treatment group, they will be granted access to SkillTalk for one week to view the videos associated with the answering sensitive questions and using trauma-informed strategies skill sets.

Researchers will compare the treatment group to the control group to see if SkillTalk has an impact on educators' demonstrable sexual health education skills.

Enrollment: 79 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Teach or have taught groups of youth in a school, clinic or community setting. Group is defined as 4 or more youth. Youth is defined as high school aged youth in grades 9-12.
• Have fewer than three years of experience teaching sexual health education
• Comfortable participating in the role
• Must reside in the U.S.
• Must be at least 18 years of age.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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79 participants in 2 patient groups

SkillTalk

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive one week of access to SkillTalk, a subscription-based microskills video training library designed to enhance the skills of high school sex educators to implement the frequently used core components of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) curricula.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SkillTalk

Business as usual

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group will receive "business as usual."