Study Details
Potter, Susan C., Coyle, Karin K., & Ayyaluru, Sankari. (2023). Your Move: A cluster randomized controlled trial of a blended learning sexual health program.
Your Move
Program Information
Evaluation Setting
Study Sample
Research Design
808
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3 months post-program
Study Findings
The Your Move intervention was evaluated using a cluster randomized control trial involving young women recruited from community-based organizations or charter schools in Delaware, Missouri, New Jersey/New York, Ohio, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Small groups of four to 16 participants were randomly assigned to either a treatment group that received the seven-session Your Move program or a control group that received a similarly formatted alternate program, Eat Smart. Surveys were administered immediately before the intervention program (baseline) and three months after the end of the programs. Both the intervention and control programs were administered over a time frame of two days to two months.
The study found that three months after program end, young women participating in the intervention were significantly less likely to report having had sex without using condoms or effective birth control in the past three months (effect size = -0.37). The study also found that at program end, young women participating in the program and those in the control group were not significantly different from each other with regard to the number of sexual partners with whom they reported having vaginal sex; number of incidents of vaginal sex without using condoms; number of incidents of vaginal sex without using hormonal contraception, a copper IUD, or condoms; number of incidents of vaginal, oral, or anal sex without using condoms; or number of sexual partners (vaginal, oral, or anal) in the past three months.
The study also examined program impacts on measures of experiencing condom error or failure; self-efficacy to communicate about and use, acquire, and have sexual control when using condoms; knowledge of sexually transmitted infections and condoms; and infertility perceptions. Findings for these outcomes were not considered because they fell outside the scope of the review.
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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.
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