Project Prepared: Risks, Roles and Relationships

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: F01.145.802.845; F01.145.802.987

Treatments: Behavioral: Project Prepared; Behavioral: TEEN

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01880450

5R01HD062079 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

2008-551

Details and patient eligibility

About

Project Prepared is a theoretically based, comprehensive, intensive group intervention that is designed to prepare early adolescents for middle adolescence and its challenges. It emphasizes skills in avoiding risky sexual situations, and provides medically accurate information about sexual development, sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy. Effectiveness is measured by using a randomized control trial design and tracking differences in cognitive factors (HIV/STI (Sexually Transmitted Infections) knowledge, sexual self-efficacy; intention to use a condom); relationship factors (immature romantic beliefs, relationship self-efficacy), gender norms (macho man, powerless female), and resilience.

Enrollment: 397 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 12-14 yrs old
• lives in the Bronx, NY at Baseline
• Has been seen at some point in one of the Montefiore Medical Center community health clinics.

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to independently complete the questionnaire/training due to sensory, cognitive or motor disabilities.
• Reading ability NOT at 5th grade on the reading subtest of the Wide-range Achievement Test.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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397 participants in 2 patient groups

Project Prepared

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Project Prepared

TEEN-Teen Education & Employment Network

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: TEEN