HIV/AIDS Prevention, Pregnancy Prevention, STI Prevention
Conditions
Brief summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the impact of SkillTalk among educators, parents, and students. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are: * What is the impact of SkillTalk on student sexual-health related outcomes? * What is the impact of SkillTalk on educator microskills? Educator participants will use an online microskills training platform for one week. Parent participants will be asked to use a parent-specific online microskills training platform for one week. Youth participants will not be asked to do anything outside of business as usual. Researchers will compare the treatment groups to the control groups to measure the impact of SkillTalk.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALSkillTalk
Online Educator Mircoskill Training and Parent Microskill Training
Sponsors
Ashley Philliber
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
for Educators: * Have fewer than three years teaching * Teach youth in a class with at least 8 students * Be able to obtain supervisor's or administration permission before beginning study * Agree to be in compliance with district/school regulations about teaching sexual health and participating in a research study * Agree to administer the assent/consent forms and student surveys.\\ Inclusion Criteria for Students: * Being in class of teacher who has agreed to participate * Parental consent * Assent to participate Inclusion Criteria for Parents: * Be the parent/guardian of a youth who has assented to participate * Consent to their youth's participation * Consent to view SkillTalk Parent site * Need to speak English or Spanish * Access to internet
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Condom knowledge | 1 month | Students in the intervention group will show greater condom knowledge than students in the comparison group. This will consist of a scale that will be knowledge questions specific to the steps of condom usage. An overall score will be based on the percent correct. A higher score would be a more positive outcome. |
| Condom use | 1 month | Students in the intervention group will show greater condom use self-efficacy than students in the comparison group. This will consist of a scale created for this study. This will be a self-efficacy scale using a 4-point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale. For each of these a higher score would be a more positive outcome. |
| STI knowledge | 1 month | Students in the intervention group will show greater knowledge on STIs than students in the comparison group. This will be based on knowledge questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the percent correct. A higher score would be a more positive outcome. |
| Connectedness | 1 month | Students in the intervention group will report greater feelings of connectedness with/perceived personalization of sexual health lesson messages than students in the comparison group. This will be based on a four point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale with questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the mean overall score of these questions. A higher score would be a more positive outcome. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self-efficacy and comfort with microskills | 1 month | Educators in the intervention group will report greater self-efficacy and comfort with condom and STI Microskills than educators in the comparison group. This will be based on a four point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale with questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the mean overall score of these questions. A higher score would be a more positive outcome. |
| Parent-child communication | 1 month | Parents in the intervention group will be perceived as better communicators by their children. This will be based on a four point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale with questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the mean overall score of these questions. A higher score would be a more positive outcome. |
| Student impressions of educator skills | 1 month | Students in the intervention group will report more positive perceptions of educator knowledge, skill, and comfort to teach sexual health lessons. This will be based on a four point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale with questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the mean overall score of these questions. A higher score would be a more positive outcome. |
| Frequency of parent-child communication | 1 month | Parents in the intervention group will report more frequent communication about sexual health with their youth. This will be based on a scale that will include daily, more than twice a week, twice per week, weekly, bi weekly, monthly, less than monthly, and never. A greater frequency of communication would be a more positive outcome. |
| Comfort in parent-child communication | 1 month | Parents in the intervention group will report more comfort in communicating with their child about sexual health. This will be based on a four point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale with questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the mean overall score of these questions. A higher score would be a more positive outcome. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed