City of Rochester Teen Outreach Program (TOP™) Evaluation

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02723292

Enrollment

1188

Registered

2016-03-30

Start date

2011-09-30

Completion date

2016-04-30

Last updated

2018-02-12

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Conditions

Academic Underachievement Disorder of Childhood or Adolescence, Adolescent Problems, Sex Behavior

Brief summary

As part of a 5-year national effort to reduce teen pregnancy, the University of Rochester is partnering with the City of Rochester Department of Recreation and Youth Services to evaluate the City's replication of the Teen Outreach Program (TOP™) for 11-14 year old youth registered at 11 selected Recreation Centers (RCs). A youth development program with demonstrated efficacy to reduce teen pregnancy, school failure and drop-out rates, TOP™ has never been studied in RCs. Advancing from efficacy to effectiveness, the investigators will also measure program fidelity obtained in RCs.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALTOP

BEHAVIORALControl intervention

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

11 Years to 14 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* must be registered at a participating RC * age 11 through 14 years * participants must assent and parent(s) or legal guardian(s) provide permission to participate * basic understanding of the English language

Exclusion criteria

* age at enrollment of less than 11 or greater than 14 years * for facilitators, age less than 21 is an exclusion criterion

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Number of participants who become pregnant	21 months	—
Number of youth who report ever having had sexual intercourse	21 months	For youth who were sexually naive at baseline, the outcome is the number of youth who report ever having had sexual intercourse at the 21 month assessment point.
Amount of sexual intercourse in preceding 3 months without an effective means of birth control	21 months	The number of times a youth reports having had sexual intercourse without using an effective means of birth control measured at the 21 month assessment point.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Number of failing grades on report card	21 months	This is a self-report measure of the number of courses failed on the last report card received, measured at the 21 month assessment point.

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026