Text Messaging, Teen Outreach Program, and Sexual Health Behavior

A Cluster Randomized Trial

Bibliographic Data

ID11037619
AuthorsSheana Bull (0000-0001-8688-326X, Sheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.), Sharon Devine (Sheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.), Sara J Schmiege (Sheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.), Leslie Pickard (Sheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.), Jon Campbell (Sheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.), Judith C Shlay (0000-0002-9494-439X, Sheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.)
Year2016
Volume106
IssueS1
PagesS117-S124
Publication date2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2016.303363
PMID27689478
OpenAlexW2526955469
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited18

Objectives. To consider whether Youth All Engaged! (a text message intervention) intensified the effects of the adolescent pregnancy prevention Teen Outreach Program (control) for youths. Methods. In this trial performed in Denver, Colorado, from 2011 to 2014, we randomized 8 Boys & Girls Clubs each of 4 years into 32 clubs per year combinations to ensure each club would serve as a treatment site for 2 years and a control site for 2 years. Control intervention consisted of the Teen Outreach Program only. We enrolled 852 youths (aged 14–18 years), and 632 were retained at follow-up, with analytic samples ranging from 50 to 624 across outcomes. We examined program costs, and whether the intervention increased condom and contraceptive use, access to care, and pregnancy prevention. Results. Control program costs were $1184 per participant, and intervention costs were an additional $126 per participant (+10.6%). There were no statistically significant differences in primary outcomes for the full sample. Hispanic participants in the intervention condition had fewer pregnancies at follow-up (1.79%) than did those in the control group (6.72%; P = .02). Conclusions. Youth All Engaged is feasible, low cost, and could have potential benefits for Hispanic youths

Cluster randomised controlled trial · Condom · Environmental health · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Intervention (counseling) · Outreach · Population · Program evaluation · Psychiatry · Randomized controlled trial · Reproductive health · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility · Medicine · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications · Gerontology

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