EmpowHer is Prevention Curriculum for Youth Ages 10-15 Years.
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: The intervention curriculum addresses sexual activity, abstinence, and adulthood preparation topics..
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Abstinence, Sex. Basic parameters: 10 years — 15 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
Alternatives For Girls (AFG's) EmpowHer curriculum is a program for youth who are 10-15 years of age. The curriculum is youth-co-led, and innovative (using online platforms and digitized presentation of material. EmpowHer addresses four adulthood preparation subjects (APS), such as parent-child communication, healthy relationships, adolescent development, and healthy life skills, and can be implemented as an after-school, in/out-of-school-time program.
Interventions
- Behavioral The intervention curriculum addresses sexual activity, abstinence, and adulthood preparation topics.
The intervention is youth-co-led, and targets youth in Detroit, Out-Wayne County or geographically similar areas through a 16-unit curriculum totaling 20 hours. Each participant and their parent/guardian will also receive one individual session with a case planner. Parents will receive 3 hours of parental support group. EmpowHer contains lessons and activities focusing on topics relating to abstinence, and teen pregnancy prevention, focusing on adulthood preparation subjects (APS), such as paren
Primary outcome measures
- Recent sexual activity [Time frame: At 9-month follow up.]
- Abstinence [Time frame: At 9-month follow up.]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Healthy relationship knowledge [Time frame: After 20-hour intervention (at post-test).]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
Youth who are 10 -15 years of age at the start of the study and residing in Detroit, Outer-Wayne County or geographically similar areas at the time of enrollment will be eligible to participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
Participants who are currently utilizing other services from Alternatives For Girls (AFG), children of AFG staff and youth participating in other sexual health education programs will not be eligible to participate and will be wait-listed until they are no longer receiving other services from AFG (i.e., after-school programs, summer day camps, mentoring, youth leadership programs, and shelter services). These services are unrelated to the study/sexual health education and do not include EmpowHer or Sassy Science. If siblings were to be enrolled, one would be randomly assigned, and the rest would be allowed to participate in the same group as the study sibling but not counted in the evaluation. This is to prevent possible contamination between conditions.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Alternatives For Girls — Detroit
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06217809 · EmpowHer