Trial reportSexually transmitted infections1998
Behavioural intervention trials for HIV/STD prevention in schools: are they feasible?
Trial report in Sexually transmitted infections, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Systematic review of interventions to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, among young people in Europe.Croatian medical journal · 2010Pooled it
- The long-term effects of a peer-led sex education programme (RIPPLE): a cluster randomised trial in schools in England.PLoS medicine · 2008Trial
- Effect of social exclusion on the risk of teenage pregnancy: development of hypotheses using baseline data from a randomised trial of sex education.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2003Trial
- Better learning in schools to improve attitudes toward abstinence and intentions for safer sex among adolescents in urban Nepal.BMC public health · 2013Article
- Process evaluation in randomised controlled trials of complex interventions.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2006Review
- Evaluation of a comprehensive AIDS education curriculum in Hungary--the role of good educators.Journal of adolescence · 2002Article
- Overview of study design in clinical epidemiology.Sexually transmitted infections · 2000Review
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the feasibility of conducting a large randomised controlled trial (RCT) of peer led intervention in schools to reduce the risk of HIV/STD and promote sexual health.
methodsFour secondary schools in Greater London were randomly assigned to receive peer led intervention (two experimental schools) or to act as control schools. In the experimental schools, trained volunteers aged 16-17 years (year 12) delivered the peer led intervention to 13-14 year old pupils (year 9). In the control schools, year 9 pupils received the usual teacher led sex education. Questionnaire data collected from year 9 pupils at baseline included views on the quality of sex education/intervention received, and knowledge and attitudes about HIV/AIDS and other sexual matters. Focus groups were also conducted with peer educators and year 9 pupils. Data on the process of delivering sex education/intervention and on attitudes to the RCT were collected for each of the schools. Analysis focused on the acceptability of a randomised trial to schools, parents, and pupils.
resultsNearly 500 parents were informed about the research and invited to examine the study questionnaire; only nine raised questions and only one pupil was withdrawn from the study. Questionnaire completion rates were around 90% in all schools. At baseline, the majority of year 9 pupils wanted more information about a wide range of sexual matters. Focus group work indicated considerable enthusiasm for peer led education, among peer educators and year 9 pupils. Class discipline was the most frequently noted problem with the delivery of the peer led intervention.
conclusionEvaluation of a peer led behavioural intervention through an RCT can be acceptable to schools, pupils, and parents and is feasible in practice. In general, pupils who received the peer led intervention responded more positively than those in control schools. A large RCT of the long term (5-7 year) effects of this novel intervention on sexual health outcomes is now under way.
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