Video Intervention to Increase Perceived Self-Efficacy for Condom Use in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Female Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

To assess the effects of the Seventeen Days interactive video on young women's perceived self-efficacy for using condoms 6 months after being offered the intervention, relative to a control.

Design

Multisite randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Twenty participating health clinics and county health departments in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Participants

Sexually active female adolescents ages 14 to 19 years.

Interventions

Seventeen Days (treatment intervention; sex education) vs Driving Skills for Life (control intervention; driving education).

Main outcome measures

Perceived self-efficacy for condom use.

Results

Participants in the Seventeen Days group reported higher perceived condom acquisition self-efficacy aft

SUBMITTER: Downs JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5938151 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature