Study Details

Citation

Peskin, Melissa F., Coyle, Karin K., Anderson, Pamela M., Laris, B. A., Glassman, Jill R., Franks, Heather M., Thiel, Melanie A., Potter, Susan C., Unti, Tracy, Edwards, Sharon, Johnson-Baker, Kimberly, Cuccaro, Paula M., Diamond, Pamela, Markham, Christine M., Shegog, Ross, Baumler, Elizabeth R., Gabay, Efrat K., & Tortolero Emery, Susan. (2019). Replication of It’s Your Game … Keep It Real! in Southeast Texas. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 40, 297–323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-019-00549-0

Program or Component Study?
Program
Program or Component Name

It's Your Game: Keep It Real (IYG)

Show Evidence of Effectiveness
No
Study Rating and Explanation
Moderate —

This study received a moderate study quality rating because it is a high-attrition randomized controlled trial that establishes that the treatment and control groups are similar at baseline and adjusts impact estimates to account for any minor differences in the groups

Program Information

Program Type
Sexual health education
Program Length
10 to 20 sessions

Evaluation Setting

Evaluation Setting
In school: Middle school

Study Sample

Average Age Group
13 or younger
Majority Racial/Ethnic Group
Hispanic or Latino
Sex
Male and female youth

Research Design

Assignment Method
Cluster randomized controlled trial
Sample Size

3,761

Number of Follow-Ups

2

Length of Last Follow-Up

24 months after baseline

Year of Last Data Collection
2015

Study Findings

Result Sexual Activity
Indeterminate evidence
Reviewed Studies
Moderate-Quality Randomized Trial
Protocol Version
Version 7.0
Details

This replication trial of It's Your Game: Keep It Real (IYG), an STI and pregnancy prevention program, was evaluated using a randomized control trial involving students who were not sexually active at baseline in 20 middle schools in urban and rural Southeast Texas. Schools were randomly assigned to the intervention and control group to receive the two-year IYG program. Surveys were administered at baseline in 7th grade and follow-up data for impacts in 9th grade, 24 months after the baseline.

The study found no significant differences between the intervention and control groups on any measure of sexual initiation (vaginal or oral) at the 24-month follow-up.

Other behavioral outcomes such as use of a condom in the past three months, use of other effective birth control in the last three months, use of condom at last sex, use of birth control at last sex, number of times having sex in the past three months, and number of sexual partners in the past three months were not considered for the review because they did not meet the review evidence standards. Specifically, findings were reported only for subgroups defined by sexual activity at follow-up. Additionally, the study examined a variety of psychosocial outcomes, including attitude, knowledge, and intentions around sex and contraceptives. These outcomes are outside the scope of the review and were not considered for the assessment of evidence of effectiveness.

Effect Sizes
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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.

Language directly from the program model developer or authors.