Study Details
The Policy Research Group (2015a). Evaluation of Becoming a Responsible Teen: Findings from the Replication of an Evidence-based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. New Orleans, LA: Jenner, E., Walsh, S., Jenner, L. W., Demby, H., Gregory, A., Davis, E.
Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART)
Program Information
Evaluation Setting
Study Sample
Research Design
850
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Study Findings
A more recent study evaluated the program using a randomized controlled trial that involved 850 adolescents recruited from youth summer employment programs in New Orleans. Adolescents were randomly assigned to either a treatment group that received BART or a control group that received Healthy Living, a general health and nutrition program. The study collected outcome data before the program started (baseline) and six months after the end of the program.
Six months after the program ended, the study found no evidence of statistically significant program impacts on measures of frequency of sexual activity and inconsistency of condom use in the past three months.
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.