Using Social Media to Enhance the Impact of the Teen Outreach Program (TOP4ME)

University of Colorado

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pregnancy Prevention

Treatments: Behavioral: Teen Outreach Program with Media Enhancement (TOP4ME)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01535651

OAH Denver Health

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators are exploring the use of short message service (text) messaging by cell phones to enhance the effects of the Teen Outreach Program, an effective teen pregnancy prevention program.

Enrollment: 852 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• boys and girls club member in metro Denver, age 14-18

Exclusion criteria

• non-english speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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852 participants in 2 patient groups

TOP Program plus Text messaging

Experimental group

Description:

Boys and Girls Club members who participate in TOP over 9 months will receive regular text messages in addition to TOP

Treatment:

Behavioral: Teen Outreach Program with Media Enhancement (TOP4ME)

TOP Program alone

No Intervention group

Description:

Boys and Girls Club participants will participate in TOP for 9 months