Study Details
Coyle, Karin, K., Susan C. Potter, Jill R. Glassman, and Liz McDade-Montez. Process and Impact Evaluation of Keep It Real South Carolina: Reducing Teen Pregnancy Among Middle School Youth. ETR, Report prepared for the Office of Adolescent Health, U.S. Department of Health Human Services, August 2015a.
Potter, S. C., Coyle, K. K., Glassman, J. R., Kershner, S., Prince, M. S. (2016). It's your game. . .keep it real in south carolina: A group randomized trial evaluating the replication of an evidence-based adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection prevention program. American Journal of Public Health, 106, S60-S69. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303419
It's Your Game: Keep it Real (IYG)
Program Information
Evaluation Setting
Study Sample
Research Design
2487
2
12-18 months
Study Findings
In a more recent study conducted by a separate group of researchers, the program was evaluated in a cluster randomized controlled trial involving students from 24 rural middle schools in South Carolina. Twelve schools were randomly selected to deliver the two-year program in 7th and 8th grades. Twelve other schools were randomly selected for a control group that continued implementing their usual health and sex education program.The study findings failed to replicate the favorable program effects found in the earlier studies by Tortolero et al. (2009) and Markham et al. (2012, 2014). For the 9th grade follow-up, students in the treatment schools were more likely than those in the control schools to report having initiated sexual activity, and the reported effect size for this estimate (odds ratio is 1.27) falls outside of the confidence interval of the impact estimate reported in the initial study (0.61 to 0.98). The study also examined program impacts at the time of the 9th grade follow-up on measures of sexual activity in the past three months and sexual activity without use of effective contraception or a condom in the past three months. The study did not find statistically significant program impacts on those outcomes.
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.