Effect of a Socio-educational Intervention on Sexual Health in Young University Students

Effect of a Socio-educational Intervention on Sexual Health in Young University Students: Randomized Clinical Trial

The sexual health is considered as a state of physical, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality that requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality, as well as the possibility of having pleasant and safe sexual experiences, free from all coercion, discrimination and violence. However, lack of family planning, having unprotected sex, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, Sexually Transmitted Infections, lack of acceptance of sexual identity, sexism, having multiple sexual partners and having sex under the influence of alcohol and drugs are some of the main elements that alter the well-being of people's sexual health, especially in the young population. In this sense, different organizations have pointed out the importance of promoting in young people strategies related to providing an adequate level of knowledge in sexual health from a perspective of the exercise of sexual rights to reduce alterations in risky sexual practices and it has been identified that the school environment can be the ideal space for a health services approach to this age group to strengthen their well-being and ensure their development during adulthood. However, the sexual health interventions traditionally implemented by the health services are usually aimed mainly at transmitting knowledge about the benefits of condom use, sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies and violence, excluding other elements that make up the sexual health and making use of conventional educational strategies through print media or short educational sessions, which causes little interaction between health personnel and users that consolidates the purpose of the interventions. That said, the implementation of a socio-educational intervention in sexual health that promotes sexual rights, positive attitudes towards sexuality and the prevention of risky sexual behaviors articulated in a model of a life project that motivates them to achieve the ideal stage of life for starting a family in a healthy way through family planning, can promote the strengthening not only of their sexual health but also their well-being for their future development as adults.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Sexual Health
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: The Right to your Sexual Health; Behavioral: Friendly sexual health services and reproductive for adolescents

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 60
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Mexico
  • Jalisco
    • Zapotlan el grande, Jalisco, Mexico, 4900
      • Southern University Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 24 years (ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion criteria;

• Young college students aged 18 to 24.
• Que reported having an active sex life.
• Who attended the family planning counseling services of the School Clinic.
• Who agreed to participate in the study by signing informed consent.

Exclusion criteria;

• Young people who reported going to private family planning services.
• They were in the gestation stage.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: SINGLE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Experimental Group (EG); The participants of the Experimental Group receive as treatment the intervention called "The Right to your Sexual Health", which is socio-educational and is composed of five thematic axes; Sexual Rights, Sexuality, Reproductive Health, Sexual Conduct and Life Project divided into ten sessions (two weekly) of 30 minutes each, each session has a structure of the opening, development and closing phase established in a manual for the facilitator, it should be noted that the intervention is applied by a multidisciplinary team in which the areas of medicine, nursing and psychology participate. In addition, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are used through a Moodle platform that has available to participants digital support material as digital presentations on each of the thematic axes, as well as audiovisual material through the Podcast format of conversations concerning each of the axes.	Behavioral: The Right to your Sexual Health; which is of a socio-educational type and is made up of five thematic axes; Sexual Rights, Sexuality, Reproductive Health, Sexual Behavior and Life Project divided into ten sessions (two weekly) of 30 minutes each, each session has a structure of opening, development and closing phase
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: Control Group (CG); The participants of the Control Group receive the usual sexual health intervention applied by Secretary of Health consisting of six sessions (one a week) lasting 50 minutes each using illustrative material through rotating official secretary of health folios on reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases and sexual violence.	Behavioral: Friendly sexual health services and reproductive for adolescents; consists of six sessions (one a week) lasting 50 minutes each, using illustrative material through official flipcharts of the secretary of health on reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases and sexual violence

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
sexual health	Changes in the sexual health well-being of young college students. Measuring dimension changes from poor sexual health to good sexual health before and after the intervention, will be measured through proportions and the MacNemar test.	six months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
attitudes and opinions towards the sexuality	Changes in the type of attitudes and opinions towards the sexuality of young university students. Measuring changes in scores obtained from the applicable auto instruments before and after the intervention, is meditated through medians and the Mann-Whitney test.	six months
risky sexual behaviors	Changes in the type of risky sexual behaviors of young college students. Measuring changes in scores obtained from the applicable auto instruments before and after the intervention, is meditated through medians and the Mann-Whitney test	six months
knowledge and exercise of the sexual rights	Changes in the knowledge and exercise of the sexual rights of young university students. Measuring changes in scores obtained from the applicable auto instruments before and after the intervention, it is meditated through medians and the Mann-Whitney test.	six months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Guadalajara
• Collaborators: Universidad de Colima
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Jonathan J Vazquez Perez, Msc, University of Guadalajara; Study Director: Benjamin Trujillo Hernández, Dsc, Universidad de Colima; Study Director: José C Vásquez Jiménez, Dsc, Universidad de Colima

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Villalobos A, Castro F, Rojas R, Allen B. [Contraception in Mexican adolescents in upper secondary schools: use and unmet needs]. Salud Publica Mex. 2017 Sep-Oct;59(5):566-576. doi: 10.21149/8481. Spanish.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): September 9, 2019
• Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED): July 12, 2020
• Study Completion (ANTICIPATED): December 11, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 7, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 9, 2020
• First Posted (ACTUAL): June 12, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): June 17, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 15, 2020
• Last Verified: June 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: VPJJ0001

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No