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Evaluation of the Spark of Duval Intervention

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University of South Florida

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Treatments

Behavioral: S.P.A.R.K (Speaking to the Potential, Ability and Resilience inside Kids) Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Mentoring

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04044027
Pro00030249

Details and patient eligibility

About

The S.P.A.R.K (Speaking to the Potential, Ability, and Resilience inside Kids) Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Mentoring program is being administered to youth (ages 11-17) living in out-of-home foster care in Duval County, Florida. Children's Home Society of Florida in Jacksonville received grant funding for the implementation and evaluation of the S.P.A.R.K program. The University of South Florida is examining the effects of intervention on reducing youth involvement in risky sexual behavior and incidents of teen pregnancy.

Full description

The evaluation is conducting an individual randomized controlled trial to test the S.P.A.R.K. (Speaking to the Potential, Ability, and Resilience inside Kids) Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Mentoring intervention with youth assigned to either the intervention or control group. As youth are referred to the study, grantee staff confirm their eligibility and then work with the youth's child welfare case manager to obtain youth assent and parental consent. Once approximately 40 to 60 youth are recruited, grantee staff selects a day for baseline survey administration. Survey administration and group assignment take place at the grantee agency and incentives to complete the survey are provided including a gift card and snacks. All eligible youth with a signed assent and informed consent forms are invited to attend the baseline survey administration and group assignment. The evaluation team generates random numbers using computer software, and the grantee staff uses these numbers to indicate youth assignment to the intervention or control group, after youth have completed the baseline survey.

Enrollment

400 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

11 to 17 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Youth aged 11-17, living in out-of-home foster care in Duval County, FL (Florida) are eligible for participation. Only youth who have provided assent and have received parental/guardian informed consent are included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

  • Youth who are teen parents, expectant parents, or currently living in residential facilities are excluded from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

400 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group
No Intervention group
Intervention Group
Experimental group
Treatment:
Behavioral: S.P.A.R.K (Speaking to the Potential, Ability and Resilience inside Kids) Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Mentoring

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Svetlana Yampolskaya, PhD; Cathy Sowell, LCSW

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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