Study Details
Robertson, A. R., St. Lawrence, J., Morse, D. T., Baird-Thomas, C., Liew, H., Gresham, K. (2011). The healthy teen girls project: Comparison of health education and STD risk reduction intervention for incarcerated adolescent females. Health Education Behavior, 38(3), 241-250.
Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART)
Program Information
Evaluation Setting
Study Sample
Research Design
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Study Findings
This study evaluated an adapted version of the program designed for incarcerated adolescent females. The study used a cluster randomized controlled trial involving female adolescents recruited from a correctional facility in the southern United States. The study randomly assigned small groups of newly admitted detainees to either a treatment group that received the adapted program or a control group that received a health education curriculum. Surveys were administered immediately before the program started (baseline), immediately after the program ended, and nine months after participants were released from the correctional facility.
The study found that at the time of the nine-month follow-up survey, there were no statistically significant program impacts on measures of (1) the frequency of unprotected vaginal or anal sex or (2) the incidence of STIs (chlamydia and gonorrhea).
NA = Not available. This means the authors did not report the information in the manuscripts associated with the studies we reviewed.
a This information was not available whenever authors did not report information for the treatment and comparison groups separately on outcome means, standard deviations, and/or sample sizes.
b Authors reported that the program effect (impact) estimate is statistically significant with a p-value of less than 0.05 based on a two-tailed test.
c For some outcomes, having less of that outcome is favorable. In those cases, an effect with a negative sign is favorable to the treatment group (that is, the treatment group had a more favorable outcome than the comparison group, on average).
d An effect shows credibly estimated, statistically significant evidence whenever it has a p-value of less than 0.05 based on a two-tailed test, includes the appropriate adjustment for clustering (if applicable), and it is not based on an endogenous subgroup.