An interventional study of Pulse in Unprotected Sex, Contraceptive Usage and Reproductive and Sexual Health Care Utilization, sponsored by Healthy Teen Network. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 20 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-01-23.
Sponsored by Healthy Teen Network · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
This study uses a randomized controlled design to evaluate the efficacy of a new mobile app, Pulse, in reducing the incidence of unprotected sex among young women. Pulse is a web-based mobile health application that can be accessed through mobile smartphones and computers. Pulse was designed to increase highly effective birth control use and reproductive and sexual health care utilization, and ultimately decrease teen pregnancy. The sample is comprised of women with the following characteristics at study enrollment: aged 18-20, not pregnant or trying to become pregnant, has daily access to a smartphone, currently living in the United States or a U.S. territory, and speaks either English or Spanish. Most of the sample (at least 70%) will be women who identify as Black and/or Latina. The evaluation team plans to enroll up to 1,300 participants over a one-year enrollment period using social media, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Users access Pulse autonomously, on their own terms, and in their own time and place. The app consists of 6 sections and includes 3 hours of unique content. It does not require the user to follow a specific sequence of content viewed; however, all users will receive a monetary incentive after registering with the apps. Youth randomized to the intervention condition are given access to Pulse indefinitely and receive daily text messages related to sexual health for 6 weeks. Control participants are directed to a free general health/fitness web-based mobile application, also called Pulse, and receive text messages related to general health for 6 weeks. The control and treatment apps look and feel similar aesthetically but contain different content. Participants in both the intervention and comparison groups receive a baseline survey and a 6-week follow-up survey. Participants will also receive incentives once they complete the baseline and post-intervention survey. Both surveys are conducted online via an electronic survey platform. This study is being conducted as a Rigorous Evaluation of New or Innovative Approaches to Prevent Teen Pregnancy funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Adolescent Health.
132 studies on the registry are indexed under Contraception Behavior; 20 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 1,304 is above the median of 382 across 106 interventional studies indexed under Contraception Behavior.
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Compared within Contraception Behavior, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Unsafe Sex. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
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Exclusion Criteria:
Unprotected sex, no contraceptive
Ever having sexual intercourse without using any method of contraception (among full sample)
Time frame: 6-week post-baseline (in the past 6 weeks)
Unprotected sex, no highly effective contraceptive
Ever having sexual intercourse without using a hormonal or LARC method of contraception (among full sample)
Time frame: 6-week post-baseline (in the past 6 weeks)
Reproductive and sexual health care utilization (among full sample)
Visiting a health care provider for reproductive or sexual health services within the past 6 weeks for the 1st follow-up survey
Time frame: 6-weeks post-baseline
Plan to share: No
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