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Empowering Young Parents: Building Healthy Relationships Study
Empowering Young Parents: Building Health Relationships Study Evaluation of the Safe Dates for Young Parents Intervention
Who can join
Ages 14 to 21 · Women · Healthy volunteers welcome
Full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) \[EYP study participants\] * Aged 14-21 years (inclusive) at Screening. * Assigned female sex at birth. * Currently pregnant or parenting their child who lives with them at least part-time. * Able to speak and read English or Spanish. * Able and willing to provide verbal informed consent for enrollment in the EYP study. * Able and willing to provide adequate contact/locator information. * Able and willing to complete protocol requirements, including completion of three study interviews over one year. Study Facilitators (process evaluation participants) * Aged 18 years or older. * Trained and served as a facilitator of the SDYP intervention. * Able to speak and read English. * Able and willing to provide verbal informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Per participant report at Screening or Enrollment, intends to travel away from their geographic area of residence for a time period that would interfere with study participation, including with intervention participation should the participant be randomized to the SDYP intervention. * Has any other condition that, in the opinion of the Principal Investigator (PI) or their designee, would preclude informed consent, make study participation unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives.
About the study
The goal of this trial is to learn how the Safe Dates for Young Parents (SDYP) intervention affects the sexual and reproductive health behaviors, and quality of, and attitudes surrounding intimate partner relationships in adolescents and young adults (AYA) assigned female sex at birth who are pregnant or parenting.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Will the SDYP intervention have any effect on the sexual and reproductive health behaviors during the study period? * Will the SDYP intervention have any effect on the prevention or reduction of intimate partner violence (IPV)? * Will the SDYP intervention have any effect on the attitudes and beliefs about healthy relationships?
Researchers will compare the behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs about sexual and reproductive health and relationships of participants assigned to the SDYP intervention group to participants assigned to the control (non-SDYP intervention) group to see if there is any difference or changes in those behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs before-and-after or without the SDYP intervention.
Participants in the SDYP intervention will attend ten (10) 50-minute group sessions that will involve interactive discussions, thinking through life-like scenarios, games, role-plays, brainstorming, and a poster contest and theatrical play.
What is being tested
- Safe Dates for Young Parents (SDYP) (behavioral)
Sponsor: RTI International · Participants: 600 · Started: Oct 16, 2024
Contact the study team
- Marni Kan, PhD · Phone: 919-485-2756
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06576193
Locations in the U.S.
| Delaware | Delaware Adolescent Program, Inc. (DAPI) - Kent County, Camden Delaware Adolescent Program, Inc. (DAPI) - Sussex County, Georgetown |
| District of Columbia | Healthy Generations Program at Children's National Hospital, Washington D.C. |
| Michigan | Berrien County Health Department, Benton Harbor Pathways Academy, Detroit Saginaw Intermediate School District, Saginaw |
| North Carolina | Empowering Connections, Partnership for Children & Families, Sanford |
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Oct 2, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.