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Trial reportAmerican journal of public health2016

Text Messaging, Teen Outreach Program, and Sexual Health Behavior: A Cluster Randomized Trial.

Sheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sarah J Schmiege, Leslie Pickard, Jon Campbell, Judith C Shlay

Erratum issuedAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in American journal of public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 28 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. 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 · 2024
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  11. Feasibility, Acceptability, and Process Indicators for Guy2Guy, an mHealth HIV Prevention Program for Sexual Minority Adolescent Boys.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2019
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  14. Interventions for preventing unintended pregnancies among adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sheana BullSheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.
Sharon DevineSheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.
Sarah J SchmiegeSheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.
Leslie PickardSheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.
Jon CampbellSheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.
Judith C ShlaySheana Bull, Sharon Devine, Sara J. Schmiege, and Jon Campbell are with the University of Colorado Denver. Judith C. Shlay is with the Denver Department of Public Health. Leslie Pickard is with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver, Denver, CO.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo consider whether Youth All Engaged! (a text message intervention) intensified the effects of the adolescent pregnancy prevention Teen Outreach Program (control) for youths.

methodsIn this trial performed in Denver, Colorado, from 2011 to 2014, we randomized 8 Boys & Girls Clubs each of 4 years into 32 clubs per year combinations to ensure each club would serve as a treatment site for 2 years and a control site for 2 years. Control intervention consisted of the Teen Outreach Program only. We enrolled 852 youths (aged 14-18 years), and 632 were retained at follow-up, with analytic samples ranging from 50 to 624 across outcomes. We examined program costs, and whether the intervention increased condom and contraceptive use, access to care, and pregnancy prevention.

resultsControl program costs were $1184 per participant, and intervention costs were an additional $126 per participant (+10.6%). There were no statistically significant differences in primary outcomes for the full sample. Hispanic participants in the intervention condition had fewer pregnancies at follow-up (1.79%) than did those in the control group (6.72%; P = .02).

conclusionsYouth All Engaged is feasible, low cost, and could have potential benefits for Hispanic youths.

Indexed as

Text MessagingAdolescentColoradoCondomsContraception BehaviorFemaleHumansMalePregnancyPregnancy in AdolescenceProgram EvaluationSex EducationSexual BehaviorSexual Health

Identifiers

PMID27689478
PMCPMC5049474

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