An interventional study of Girl2Girl in Pregnancy Prevention, sponsored by Center for Innovative Public Health Research. Status unknown at 1 site in United States. Open to female participants aged 14 Years to 18 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-03-22.
Sponsored by Center for Innovative Public Health Research · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
This is a pilot effectiveness study of Girl2Girl, a text messaging-based pregnancy prevention program for cisgender sexual minority adolescents.
An estimated one in four teen women will become pregnant by the time she is 20 years of age. That said, significant disparity in rates exist for lesbian, gay, bisexual and other sexual minority women (LGB) versus non-LGB teen women: Research suggests that lesbian and bisexual teen women are between two and four times more likely to report having been pregnant than teen women who identified as exclusively heterosexual. Despite this compelling evidence that lesbian and bisexual adolescent women are at risk for teen pregnancy, programs tailored to the unique needs of adolescent LGB women are nonexistent. Evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) programs targeting LGB teen women are urgently needed.
The Girl2Girl intervention text messaging-based TPP program designed specifically for LGB women ages 14-18 years, nation-wide. This is an extension of a previous randomized controlled trial. Here, the cohort was recruited using an effectiveness strategy: Girls were allowed to register and enroll themselves without needing to talk to research staff. All eligible and interested youth were allowed to enroll; no diversity targets were applied.
Exclusion Criteria:
Girls receive text messages that address the information, motivation, and behavioral skills components need to prevent unwanted pregnancy.
Behavioral: Girl2Girl
Girls receive text messages about a 'healthy lifestyle', including healthy social media use and self-esteem.
The program has a 'core' 7 weeks of daily messages and then a week 'booster' that is delivered 3 months later.
Number of Condom protected penile-vaginal Sex Acts
The relative difference of protected penile-vaginal sex acts in the intervention versus control group at 3-months post-intervention
Time frame: 3-months post-intervention
Number of Participants Who Used Other Birth Control Methods
The relative difference of teens who used birth control methods other than condoms (e.g., the pill, the patch) in the intervention versus control group at 3-months post-intervention
Time frame: 3-months post-intervention
Testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
The relative odds of reporting an HIV or other STI test during the observation period for those in the intervention versus control
Time frame: 3-months post intervention
Pregnancy
The percent of teens who have been pregnant since the beginning of the observation period in the intervention versus control group
Time frame: 3-months post intervention
Intentions to use condoms
The percent of teens who intend to use condoms if they have penile-vaginal sex in the future
Time frame: 3-months post intervention
Intentions to Use Birth Control Other Than Condoms
The percent of teens who intend to use birth control other than condoms if they have penile-vaginal sex in the future
Time frame: 3-months post intervention
Plan to share: No
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