This pilot quasi-experimental community based trial examines the feasibility of a sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse prevention program for girls aged 14-19. Feasibility is assessed through participant attendance, retention and program satisfaction measures and interviews are conducted at baseline, end of program and 3 month follow up (endline) about participant experiences.
The goal of the project is to adapt and pilot a "gender transformative," sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse prevention program, Sisterhood 2.0, among African American high school-age females in a community-based setting. The Sisterhood 2.0 curriculum was adapted from Program M, created in 2006 by Promundo to address health and empowerment of young women aged 15-24. The curriculum engages young women in questioning rigid and non-equitable stereotypes about masculinity and femininity and how these rigid stereotypes affect their health and well-being. This study will pilot test, using a quasi-experimental design, the participant satisfaction with the program through measures of attendance and retention, and be compared to a job skills development curriculum. This study is significant because there are too few evidence-based sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse prevention program in the U.S., none that are specifically tailored for African American adolescent females, and there are no evidence- based programs implemented in community settings that target both sexual violence and adolescent relationship abuse and adolescent sexual health.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
246
The Sisterhood 2.0 curriculum was adapted from Program M, created in 2006 by Promundo to address health and empowerment of young women aged 15-24. The curriculum engages young women in questioning rigid and non-equitable stereotypes about masculinity and femininity and how they affect both women's and men's health and well-being.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Participant Attendance
Attendance recorded at beginning and end of each session with a weekly satisfaction survey. Calculated as a proportion of total number of sessions.
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 per week
Participant Retention
At the end of the program, participants were asked why they returned or did not return to the program each week and their reasons for missing any sessions.
Time frame: post-intervention at Week 8
Participant Satisfaction
Participants were asked about how satisfied they were with the topic discussed and format of the program each week.
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 per week
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