Evaluation of My Future Self, an New Teen Pregnancy Prevention Group Intervention for Youth in Non-traditional Settings

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Teen Pregnancy

Treatments: Behavioral: My Future Self

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05796687

CHLA-23-00049

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children's Hospital Los Angeles and ETR will implement and test the effectiveness of a pregnancy prevention intervention, My Future Self, targeting youth ages 16-19 in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties who, for a variety of reasons, are receiving education or training in non-traditional settings. These youth typically experience a combination of needs related to unstable or no housing, extreme poverty, involvement with child welfare or juvenile justice, historical trauma, and/or learning differences. My Future Self is a 5 week program consisting of 5 group sessions. Our study will enroll up to 704 highly mobile youth from various sites in Los Angeles and San Diego. Youth will be randomized to receive the My Future Self intervention in conjunction with their regular services or just their regular services. All youth enrolled will complete baseline, 6 month and 12 month surveys.

Full description

Children's Hospital Los Angeles and ETR will implement and test the effectiveness of a pregnancy prevention intervention, My Future Self, targeting youth ages 16-19 in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties who, for a variety of reasons, are receiving education or training in non-traditional settings. These youth typically experience a combination of needs related to unstable or no housing, extreme poverty, involvement with child welfare or juvenile justice, historical trauma, and/or learning differences.

Currently, there are a few evidence-based interventions that focus on sub populations of these youth in alternative schools (All4You!, All4You2!), those at risk for dropping out of school (Crossroads/TCAP), and those coming from out of home care settings (Power Through Choices). However additional interventions are needed as these youth represent a vulnerable population with unique needs and barriers to pregnancy prevention requiring approaches that are tailored to nontraditional educational settings, familial circumstances, developmental trajectory, and that are synergistic with the generational reliance on technology.

Enrollment: 704 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 19 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Youth will be eligible for enrollment in the evaluation if they:

• Are served, or identified on outreach, by one of our partner youth-serving agencies or schools
• Are ages 16-19 years
• Are English-language speakers
• Are not currently pregnant
• Have no immediate travel plans (i.e., are planning on being in the area for the length of the intervention)
• Have not previously enrolled in the study, and
• Answer the baseline survey items related to our primary outcome (which will be assessed after completion of the baseline survey).

Exclusion criteria

• Outside of age range
• Currently pregnant
• Not planning to be in the area for the length of the intervention)
• Previously enrolled in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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704 participants in 2 patient groups

My Future Self Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

My Future Self - 5 group sessions; 1 hour each over 5 weeks; content includes: health education around abstinence and contraception methods, and consideration of goals of parenthood and family planning in their adult future; future plans, discussion of healthy intimate partner relationships/

Treatment:

Behavioral: My Future Self

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Youth will continue to receive any services that they would normally receive around health education.