Prime time: sexual health outcomes at 24 months for a clinic-linked intervention to prevent pregnancy risk behaviors.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Preventing early pregnancy among vulnerable adolescents requires innovative and sustained approaches. Prime Time, a youth development intervention, aims to reduce pregnancy risk among adolescent girls seeking clinic services who are at high risk for pregnancy.

Objective

To evaluate sexual risk behaviors and related outcomes with a 24-month postbaseline survey, 6 months after the conclusion of the Prime Time intervention.

Design

Randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Community and school-based primary care clinics.

Participants

Of 253 sexually active 13- to 17-year-old girls meeting specified risk criteria, 236 (93.3%) completed the 24-month follow-up survey.

Intervention

Offered during an 18-month period, Prime Time includes case manageme

SUBMITTER: Sieving RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4361088 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature