Evaluating the Impact of Online Educator Microskill Training on Educator Knowledge and Skill

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy of SkillTalk, a subscription-based microskills video training library designed to enhance the skills of high school sex educators to implement the frequently used core components of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) curricula.

The overall goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of SkillTalk on educators' demonstrable sexual health education skills.

Participants will be asked to:

• Complete a consent form.
• Attend two simulated classroom sessions, either in person or virtually, during which they will teach two prepared lessons that have will be provided to them.
• Be video recorded while teaching.
• Complete a baseline survey and a post-survey.
• If assigned to the treatment group, they will be granted access to SkillTalk for one week to view the videos associated with the answering sensitive questions and using trauma-informed strategies skill sets.

Researchers will compare the treatment group to the control group to see if SkillTalk has an impact on educators' demonstrable sexual health education skills.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Pregnancy Prevention; STI Prevention; HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: SkillTalk

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 79
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • Accord, New York, United States, 12404
      • Philliber Research & Evaluation

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Teach or have taught groups of youth in a school, clinic or community setting. Group is defined as 4 or more youth. Youth is defined as high school aged youth in grades 9-12.
• Have fewer than three years of experience teaching sexual health education
• Comfortable participating in the role
• Must reside in the U.S.
• Must be at least 18 years of age.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: SkillTalk; Participants will receive one week of access to SkillTalk, a subscription-based microskills video training library designed to enhance the skills of high school sex educators to implement the frequently used core components of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) curricula.	Behavioral: SkillTalk; A subscription-based microskills video training library designed to enhance the skills of high school sex educators to implement the frequently used core components of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) curricula.; Other Names: SkillFlix
No Intervention: Business as usual; Control group will receive "business as usual."

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Demonstrable use of microskills	Educators in the intervention group will show greater demonstrable use of microskills than educators in the comparison group. These are rated using a rubric with ratings for each skill from not at all to completely. A total microskills score will be created using this scale of 0 for not at all to 5 for completely. The overall mean score will be the final score with higher scores being more positive outcomes.	1 week

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge of microskills	Educators in the intervention group will show greater knowledge of the microskills than educators in the comparison group. A scale will be created based on the SkillTalk site information. An overall percent correct score will be created with higher scores being more positive outcomes.	1 week
Self-efficacy and comfort	Educators in the intervention group will show greater self-efficacy and comfort in using microskills than educators in the comparison group. This scale will be created specifically for SkillTalk on a four point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree with higher scores being more positive outcomes.	1 week

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Philliber Research & Evaluation

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 9, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 31, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): October 24, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 5, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 14, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): July 18, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): November 22, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 20, 2024
• Last Verified: November 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Blood-Borne Infections; Urogenital Diseases; Genital Diseases; Immune System Diseases; Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Communicable Diseases; Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Lentivirus Infections; Retroviridae Infections; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes; Slow Virus Diseases; HIV Infections; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Other Study ID Numbers: Philliberdfusionskillflix

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