Mitigating Adverse Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Young Adolescents

Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Relationship Problems Specific to Childhood and Adolescence

Treatments: Other: Lessons on comprehensive sexuality education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03669913

MUST 04/10-15

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effectiveness of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) among young adolescents (10-14 years) in schools. A total of 33 schools will participate in the trial with 15 intervention arm that will receive CSE education and 18 in the control arm, Intervention will go on for one year

Full description

The International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education (ITGSE) defines CSE as "an age-appropriate, culturally relevant approach to teaching about sexuality and relationships by providing scientifically accurate, realistic, non-judgmental information and CSE improves sexual and reproductive health outcomes of young people by delaying sexual debut, promoting condom use and increasing sexual health knowledge, however, most of these outcomes have been reported in older adolescents and there is limited evidence for effectiveness of CSE among young adolescents

The study aims at improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health of young adolescents through CSE that is led by interdisciplinary university students' team in an environment where no consistent or regulated sexual and reproductive health education program currently exists

Enrollment: 1,100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adolescent 10-14 years in primary school
• Adolescent in primary 5 or 6 of education in Uganda
• Written consent/assent to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Below 10 years or above 14 years at baseline
• No consent obtained

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,100 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention arm will receive a pre evaluation survey, 11 lessons on CSE sequentially in a period of one year and a post evaluation survey

Treatment:

Other: Lessons on comprehensive sexuality education

Control arm

No Intervention group

Description:

This is a control arm that receives no intervention but will have and pre and post evaluation in one year