Safe, Healthy, Adolescent Relationships and Peers
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- 120
Summary
- Conditions
- Adolescent Behavior
- Drug Use
- Juvenile Delinquency Unspecified
- Risk Behavior
- Sexual Behavior
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentMasking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)Primary Purpose: Prevention
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 13 years and 18 years
- Gender
- Only males
Description
Initiation of drug use and participation in sexual-risk behaviors such as having multiple sexual partners, unprotected sexual intercourse, and intercourse with drug users are all too common among girls with at-risk histories, such as those who have experienced poverty, abuse, neglect, or been in the...
Initiation of drug use and participation in sexual-risk behaviors such as having multiple sexual partners, unprotected sexual intercourse, and intercourse with drug users are all too common among girls with at-risk histories, such as those who have experienced poverty, abuse, neglect, or been in the juvenile justice system. Studies consistently find that these girls have disproportionately high rates of these problems that, in addition to increasing risk for negative outcomes, have other costly sequelae such as drug addiction, early pregnancy, sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV contraction, delinquency, and early mortality (e.g., Santelli et al., 2001; Stueve et al., 2005). In our prior work, the investigators showed that the investigators could prevent early onset sexual intercourse and tobacco and marijuana initiation in pre-teen girls in foster care. Although this intervention, delivered to girls who were 11-years old and had not yet entered middle school, demonstrated efficacy, the investigators know very little about how to prevent the more serious and costly sexual-risk and illicit drug use behaviors in at-risk girls during the high school years, a period of risk for engagement in such behaviors. This study builds from this prior work to develop a new intervention for teenage girls with early adversity.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT02420548
- Collaborators
- Oregon Social Learning Center
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Leslie Leve, PhD University of Oregon Principal Investigator: Patti Chamberlain, PhD Oregon Social Learning Center Study Director: Rohanna Buchanan, PhD Oregon Social Learning Center