Evaluation of Are You Ready? (AYR)

The Policy & Research Group

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Treatments

Behavioral: Social Media Awareness Shorts (SMAS)

Behavioral: Are You Ready? (AYR)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT06580080

1 TP2AH000094-01-00

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this randomized trial is to learn if the Are You Ready? (AYR) intervention has a positive impact on the sexual and mental health behaviors of sexually active youth between the ages of 14 and 21 years old who are at risk for or involved in the juvenile justice and/or child welfare systems. The primary research questions it aims to answer are:

Three months after being offered the intervention, does AYR impact youth's receipt of sexually transmitted infection testing in the past three months?
Three months after being offered the intervention, does AYR impact youth's use of coping skills?
Nine months after being offered the intervention, does AYR impact youth's frequency of having vaginal and anal sex without condoms in the past three months?

Researchers will compare participants randomized to receive AYR (treatment group) to participants randomized to receive a control condition that contains no sexual or reproductive health information (control group).

Participants randomized to the treatment group will be offered AYR as a virtual or in-person, 2.5 hour group session. Participants randomized to the control group will be offered a virtually delivered control condition.

Full description

This is an individual-level, randomized control trial to rigorously evaluate the impact of the Are You Ready? (AYR) intervention. Participant outcomes will be assessed using self-reported, individual-level data gathered using a structured questionnaire administered at three time points: baseline (enrollment); three months post-intervention (four months after baseline); and nine months post-intervention (ten months after baseline).

Enrollment

1,850 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

14 to 21 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

At risk for or involved in the juvenile justice and/or child welfare systems
Has had vaginal or anal sex in the past 6 months
Comfortable reading, speaking, and writing in English

Exclusion criteria

Has received other known sexual and reproductive health evidence-based interventions implemented in their local area.
Enrolled in an ongoing PRG-run TPP study
Identified as fraudulent