Personal Responsibility Education Program Innovative Strategies: Digital Initiative for Youth
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- 1360
Summary
- Conditions
- Contraception
- Reproductive Health
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentIntervention Model Description: Adolescents will be randomly assigned to treatment or control by cohort (groups of 5-25 adolescents). Adolescents will consent to participation and complete baseline survey prior to randomization. Enrollment will continue by cohort for approximately 2 years. Approximately 15 sites will participate with 2-4 cohorts per site per year.Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)Masking Description: The adolescents and the staff enrolling the participants will not know of study assignment until after completing recruitment, consent, and baseline. At that point, they will open an envelope stating if it is a control or treatment cohort. The researcher conducting the outcomes analysis will not know enrollment status of an individual.Primary Purpose: Prevention
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 13 years and 19 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
The Digital Initiative for Youth (DIY) is an innovative, youth-centered, digital intervention that aims to improve the health and well-being of adolescents ages 13-19 in Fresno County, California. In particular, it will address the needs of homeless and unstably housed youth, youth of color, sexual ...
The Digital Initiative for Youth (DIY) is an innovative, youth-centered, digital intervention that aims to improve the health and well-being of adolescents ages 13-19 in Fresno County, California. In particular, it will address the needs of homeless and unstably housed youth, youth of color, sexual minority youth, and Native American youth using a trauma-informed approach and positive youth development framework. DIY combines existing, in-person, group-based, comprehensive sexual health education with an app designed in consultation with youth. DIY is built on three strategies: positive youth development, youth-centered design, and wraparound technologies. It will focus on four main areas: sexual health and contraceptive use, healthy relationships, educational and career development, and life skills. The intervention includes six hours of in-person education and an app that includes a resource locator, goal setting, text message reminders, and additional information and referrals. This study is funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program Innovative Strategies (PREIS), which is administered by the Family and Youth Services Bureau, part of Health and Human Services, Fresno EOC is responsible for site and participant recruitment as well as the implementation of the intervention. Participants are randomized at the cohort (group) level. All control group participants will be invited to participate after completion of the long-term follow up period.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT03765255
- Collaborators
- Youth+Tech+Health
- Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Mara J Decker, DrPH University of California, San Francisco
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