Trial reportThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2015
Efficacy of It's Your Game-Tech: A Computer-Based Sexual Health Education Program for Middle School Youth.
Trial report in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07208045 (Es tu Juego), which is not on this map. Cited by 46 papers, 16 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Es tu Juego: Decide Bien [It's Your Game: Keep It Real]. Cultural Adaptation, Validation, and Evaluation of the Programme for Promotion of Healthy Affective-Sexual Behaviours in Adolescents
Who cites it
46 citing papers in PubMed, 16 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Web-based sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents aged 10-17 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ paediatrics open · 2025Pooled it
- Use of Behavior Change Techniques in Digital HIV Prevention Programs for Adolescents and Young People: Systematic Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of digital interventions to reduce school-age adolescent sexual risks: A systematic review.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2025Pooled it
- A Review of Serious Gaming as an Intervention for HIV Prevention.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2023Pooled it
- Systematic review of digital interventions to support refusal self-efficacy in child and adolescent health promotion.Health promotion international · 2022Pooled it
- Association of Sexual Health Interventions With Sexual Health Outcomes in Black Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2020Pooled it
- STI Health Disparities: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Preventive Interventions in Educational Settings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Efficacy of hearing conservation education programs for youth and young adults: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2018Pooled it
- Technology-Based Interventions to Reduce Sexually Transmitted Infections and Unintended Pregnancy Among Youth.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce risk for sexually transmitted infections in adolescents: A meta-analysis of trials, 2008-2016.PloS one · 2018Pooled it
- Theory-based interventions for contraception.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- School-based interventions for improving contraceptive use in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Is Participatory Design Associated with the Effectiveness of Serious Digital Games for Healthy Lifestyle Promotion? A Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2016Pooled it
- Interventions for preventing unintended pregnancies among adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- [Effectiveness of educational interventions for the prevention of pregnancy in adolescents].Atencion primariaPooled it
- The "Secret of Seven Stones": Short-Term Efficacy of an Online Intergenerational Sexual Health Education Game for Early Adolescents and Their Parents.Games for health journal · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of an online sexual and reproductive health educational program on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours among senior primary school students: a cluster randomized controlled trial.Reproductive health · 2025Trial
- In the Know: A Cluster Randomized Trial of an In-person Sexual Health Education Program Integrating Digital Technologies for Adolescents.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Trial
- Effectiveness of a Theory-Based Digital Animated Video Intervention to Reduce Intention and Willingness to Sext Among Diploma Students: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
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Abstract
purposeFew computer-based HIV, sexually transmitted infection (STI), and pregnancy prevention programs are available, and even fewer target early adolescents. In this study, we tested the efficacy of It's Your Game (IYG)-Tech, a completely computer-based, middle school sexual health education program. The primary hypothesis was that students who received IYG-Tech would significantly delay sexual initiation by ninth grade.
methodsWe evaluated IYG-Tech using a randomized, two-arm nested design among 19 schools in a large, urban school district in southeast Texas (20 schools were originally randomized). The target population was English-speaking eighth-grade students who were followed into the ninth grade. The final analytic sample included 1,374 students. Multilevel logistic regression models were used to test for differences in sexual initiation between intervention and control students, while adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, time between measures, and family structure.
resultsThere was no significant difference in the delay of sexual activity or in any other sexual behavior between intervention and control students. However, there were significant positive between-group differences for psychosocial variables related to STI and condom knowledge, attitudes about abstinence, condom use self-efficacy, and perceived norms about sex. Post hoc analyses conducted among intervention students revealed some significant associations: "full exposure" (completion of all 13 lessons) and "mid-exposure" (5-8 lessons) students were less likely than "low exposure" (1-4 lessons) students to initiate sex.
conclusionsCollectively, our findings indicate that IYG-Tech impacts some determinants of sexual behavior, and that additional efficacy evaluation with full intervention exposure may be warranted.
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