The Impact of Online Educator Mircoskill Training and Parent Microskill Training on Student Sexual-Health Related Outcomes

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the impact of SkillTalk among educators, parents, and students. The main question[s] it aims to answer are:

• What is the impact of SkillTalk on student sexual-health related outcomes?
• What is the impact of SkillTalk on educator microskills?

Educator participants will use an online microskills training platform for one week. Parent participants will be asked to use a parent-specific online microskills training platform for one week. Youth participants will not be asked to do anything outside of "business as usual." Researchers will compare the treatment groups to the control groups to measure the impact of SkillTalk.

Study Overview

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

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 6
• 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: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria for Educators:

• Have fewer than three years teaching
• Teach youth in a class with at least 8 students
• Be able to obtain supervisor's or administration permission before beginning study
• Agree to be in compliance with district/school regulations about teaching sexual health and participating in a research study
• Agree to administer the assent/consent forms and student surveys.\

Inclusion Criteria for Students:

• Being in class of teacher who has agreed to participate
• Parental consent
• Assent to participate

Inclusion Criteria for Parents:

• Be the parent/guardian of a youth who has assented to participate
• Consent to their youth's participation
• Consent to view SkillTalk Parent site
• Need to speak English or Spanish
• Access to internet

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; Educators in the treatment group will receive access to an online educator microskill training platform. Parents/caregivers of students in the educators' classes will be assigned to treatment and receive access to a parent-specific online educator microskill training platform. Students in this group will receive "business as usual."	Behavioral: SkillTalk; Online Educator Mircoskill Training and Parent Microskill Training; Other Names: SkillFlix
No Intervention: Business as usual; Business as usual.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Condom knowledge	Students in the intervention group will show greater condom knowledge than students in the comparison group. This will consist of a scale that will be knowledge questions specific to the steps of condom usage. An overall score will be based on the percent correct. A higher score would be a more positive outcome.	1 month
Condom use	Students in the intervention group will show greater condom use self-efficacy than students in the comparison group. This will consist of a scale created for this study. This will be a self-efficacy scale using a 4-point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale. For each of these a higher score would be a more positive outcome.	1 month
STI knowledge	Students in the intervention group will show greater knowledge on STIs than students in the comparison group. This will be based on knowledge questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the percent correct. A higher score would be a more positive outcome.	1 month
Connectedness	Students in the intervention group will report greater feelings of connectedness with/perceived personalization of sexual health lesson messages than students in the comparison group. This will be based on a four point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale with questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the mean overall score of these questions. A higher score would be a more positive outcome.	1 month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self-efficacy and comfort with microskills	Educators in the intervention group will report greater self-efficacy and comfort with condom and STI Microskills than educators in the comparison group. This will be based on a four point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale with questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the mean overall score of these questions. A higher score would be a more positive outcome.	1 month
Student impressions of educator skills	Students in the intervention group will report more positive perceptions of educator knowledge, skill, and comfort to teach sexual health lessons. This will be based on a four point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale with questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the mean overall score of these questions. A higher score would be a more positive outcome.	1 month
Frequency of parent-child communication	Parents in the intervention group will report more frequent communication about sexual health with their youth. This will be based on a scale that will include daily, more than twice a week, twice per week, weekly, bi weekly, monthly, less than monthly, and never. A greater frequency of communication would be a more positive outcome.	1 month
Comfort in parent-child communication	Parents in the intervention group will report more comfort in communicating with their child about sexual health. This will be based on a four point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale with questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the mean overall score of these questions. A higher score would be a more positive outcome.	1 month
Parent-child communication	Parents in the intervention group will be perceived as better communicators by their children. This will be based on a four point strongly agree to strongly disagree scale with questions specific to the information found in SkillTalk. An overall score will be based on the mean overall score of these questions. A higher score would be a more positive outcome.	1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ashley Philliber

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 15, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 24, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): October 24, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 5, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 17, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): July 19, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 26, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 24, 2024
• Last Verified: October 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: Philliberdfusionparent

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