City of Rochester Teen Outreach Program (TOP™) Evaluation

As part of a 5-year national effort to reduce teen pregnancy, the University of Rochester is partnering with the City of Rochester Department of Recreation and Youth Services to evaluate the City's replication of the Teen Outreach Program (TOP™) for 11-14 year old youth registered at 11 selected Recreation Centers (RCs). A youth development program with demonstrated efficacy to reduce teen pregnancy, school failure and drop-out rates, TOP™ has never been studied in RCs. Advancing from efficacy to effectiveness, the investigators will also measure program fidelity obtained in RCs.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sex Behavior; Adolescent Problems; Academic Underachievement Disorder of Childhood or Adolescence
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Control intervention; Behavioral: TOP

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 1188
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 11 years to 14 years (CHILD)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• must be registered at a participating RC
• age 11 through 14 years
• participants must assent and parent(s) or legal guardian(s) provide permission to participate
• basic understanding of the English language

Exclusion Criteria:

• age at enrollment of less than 11 or greater than 14 years
• for facilitators, age less than 21 is an exclusion criterion

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Experimental group services; This study will replicate the evidence-based TOP™ in after-school sessions held during RC hours. The primary components of TOP™ include: Comprehensive age-appropriate sexuality education; 90-minute sessions, once a week after-school, during the school year for nine months, using the Changing Scenes© curriculum, and at least twenty hours of youth-led service learning, which involves youth in planning, implementing and reflecting on, community service and leadership.	Behavioral: TOP
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: Control group services; Youth in the control arm will receive a work readiness training curriculum focused on competencies to secure employment. This will include such topics as building customer service skills, clear and direct communication, and creating a work portfolio.	Behavioral: Control intervention

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants who become pregnant		21 months
Number of youth who report ever having had sexual intercourse	For youth who were sexually naive at baseline, the outcome is the number of youth who report ever having had sexual intercourse at the 21 month assessment point.	21 months
Amount of sexual intercourse in preceding 3 months without an effective means of birth control	The number of times a youth reports having had sexual intercourse without using an effective means of birth control measured at the 21 month assessment point.	21 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of failing grades on report card	This is a self-report measure of the number of courses failed on the last report card received, measured at the 21 month assessment point.	21 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Rochester
• Collaborators: State University of New York at Binghamton, Decker School of Nursing; City of Rochester Department of Recreation and Youth Services

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: September 1, 2011
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): April 1, 2016
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): April 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 4, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 23, 2016
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): March 30, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): February 12, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 8, 2018
• Last Verified: February 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 36508

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED