An interventional study of SAFETY and Standard education in Attitude, Sexual Behavior and Condom Use, sponsored by Örebro University, Sweden. Completed. Open to participants aged 13 Years to 15 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-12-15.
Sponsored by Örebro University, Sweden · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The study evaluated if interactive theater in school sex education affects student knowledge, attitudes and behavior regarding condom use. The intervention group got a play, value exercises, chlamydia games, condom school and interactive replay with professional actors and staff from a youth guidance center. The control group got standard sex education from school staff, based on the education guidelines of the Swedish National Agency for Education.
The spread of chlamydia indicates that current preventive work with condoms is insufficient. Research shows that reasons behind increased chlamydia include youths taking more sexual risks, due to altered attitudes and sexual behaviors. Since only condoms protect against both sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted pregnancy, the goal of the World Health Organization (WHO) chlamydia prevention program is to increase condom use. Research suggests that school is the most important arena for sex education, reaching all youths early in life, when many values on sex and relationships are instilled. International studies on theater in sex education indicate effects like increased knowledge on the topic, and partially changed attitudes and behaviors among youths. Furthermore, several studies show that youths feel theater is a good method for sex education and a supplement to standard education.
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This study's enrollment of 826 is above the median of 264 across 179 interventional studies indexed under Sexual Behavior.
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The intervention SAFETY was performed in school facilities by professional actors and staff from the municipality's youth guidance center within the county. The actors first enacted a play portraying youths and problems with condom use. Next, a value exercise was held by the youth guidance center staff. The class continued with chlamydia games held by the youth guidance center staff, providing information on symptoms, protection, how to get tested, treatment and consequences. The youth guidance center staff and the actors, playing students, then held a condom school. Lastly, the students came up with new endings to the play. All replays were enacted and the students gave feedback on the new endings. The class ended with condoms being handed out.
Behavioral: SAFETY
The intervention in the control group contained standard education from school staff, based on the sex education guidelines of the Swedish National Agency for Education. Students got education on human sexuality, reproduction, menstruation, love, sex, pregnancy and how STIs and unwanted pregnancy are prevented.
Behavioral: Standard education
- Knowledge of condom use and chlamydia. - Attitudes toward condom use. - Behavior relating to condom use.
Web-based surveys contained questions about * knowledge of condom use and chlamydia (7 questions) * attitudes toward condom use (5 questions) * behavior relating to condom use (6 questions)
Time frame: One month.
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Plan to share: No — De-identified individual participant data for all primary outcome measures will be made available on request.
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Ran from Dec 2016 to primary completion in Mar 2017, 3 months.
Of 106 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Sexual Behavior, half reached primary completion within 27 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 47. This study's 3 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 107 studies reached it within 23 months; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 47.
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