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NCT Number: NCT05952973

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.

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Key information

Conditions

HIV/AIDS Prevention Pregnancy Prevention STI Prevention

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Philliber Research & Evaluation

Accord, New York, 12404, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

SkillTalk

Behavioral

Online Educator Mircoskill Training and Parent Microskill Training

Other names: SkillFlix

Primary outcomes

  1. Condom knowledge

    Time frame: 1 month

    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.

  2. Condom use

    Time frame: 1 month

    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.

  3. STI knowledge

    Time frame: 1 month

    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.

  4. Connectedness

    Time frame: 1 month

    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.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Self-efficacy and comfort with microskills

    Time frame: 1 month

    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.

  2. Student impressions of educator skills

    Time frame: 1 month

    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.

  3. Frequency of parent-child communication

    Time frame: 1 month

    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.

  4. Comfort in parent-child communication

    Time frame: 1 month

    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.

  5. Parent-child communication

    Time frame: 1 month

    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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Ashley Philliber

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2024
First posted
Jul 19, 2023
Registry last updated
Oct 26, 2024

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