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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) |
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Information provided by: | National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00341471 |
The Building Futures for Youth (BFY) project is a pilot intervention program for 6th grade students and their parents in the District of Columbia public school system. The full intervention will include students in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades. The primary overall goal of the project is to help students learn to make healthy life choices and delay sexual initiation.
Sixth-grade children and parents in four Washington, D.C., public schools will be recruited for this study.
Children from two schools will participate in the BFY intervention program and children from two other schools will serve as controls. Participants are guided through three study phases, with each phase spanning one school year, as follows:
Sixth-grade students are given a foundation in goal setting, decision-making and communication skills. They gain knowledge about puberty, reproduction, and the negative consequences associated with having a child at a young age. They learn strategies for getting out of situations in which they feel pressured to engage in sexual activity. Through lessons, activities, and discussions they are given tools to answer the following questions:
Seventh grade students are given the tools and skills necessary to deal with a variety of challenges they may experience during their developmental years. They receive comprehensive sex education, in conjunction with life skills such as relationship negotiation, dating skills, violence prevention and problem-solving skills.
Eighth grade students are guided through a series of activities that encourage students to translate knowledge gained in the 6th and 7th grade phases into long-term behavioral changes and risk reduction. Activities include writing and performing skills, creating an informational pamphlet, designing T-shirts and creating poetry that affirms the BFY message.
In addition, students participate in a program of community service projects, such as the Anacostia River clean-up coordinated by the Earth Conservation Corps and Martin Luther King Day events coordinated by Howard University's Community Association and Project Change.
Parents are provided skills training and information on a variety of issues relating to adolescent sexuality, parental monitoring and parent-child communication.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
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Adolescent Pregnancy |
Procedure: Risk Behavior Prevention Intervention Program |
Phase III |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: Building Futures for Youth |
Estimated Enrollment: | 2500 |
Study Start Date: | January 2006 |
Study Completion Date: | October 2008 |
Primary Completion Date: | October 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
The Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Project, or Building Futures for Youth, is embarking on a pilot year in order to test the effectiveness of a revised children's intervention for Grade 6. Although there was some evidence of a positive effect of the intervention for girls during Phase II, there were no significant effects for boys. In light of these findings, BFY will spend the current project year piloting a revised classroom intervention as well as a newly adapted after-school intervention component.
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
The target population for the pilot year is primarily African-American children who are sixth grade students at the participating schools.
Active parental consent will be required for all participants and will be required for all participants and will be required separately for participation in the classroom intervention session and participation in Club SERVE.
All children who can understand English will be included in the study.
Study ID Numbers: | 999906078, 06-CH-N078 |
Study First Received: | June 19, 2006 |
Last Updated: | August 24, 2009 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00341471 History of Changes |
Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
School Sixth Grade Curricular Howard University |
D.C. Adolescent Pregnancy Intervention |