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Evaluation of Peer Group Connection - Middle School

Evaluation of Peer Group Connection - Middle School (PGC-MS)

Who can join

Ages 11 to 14 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

* Be enrolled at a middle school participating in the study
* Entering the middle school transition grade for the first time (6th or 7th grade depending on the middle school transition year) at a participating study school
* Provide parental consent and student assent to participate in the study
* Have the ability to complete a self-administered questionnaire in either English or Spanish in a classroom or group setting, unassisted, in 60 minutes or less.

Exclusion Criteria:

\- Repeating the middle school transition year (6th or 7th grade)

About the study

This study is a randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of the Peer Group Connection - Middle School (PGC-MS) intervention on pre-sexual behaviors and sexual initiation in middle school-aged youth. The primary research questions it aims to answer are:

1. What is the impact of the offer to participate in PGC-MS relative to the control group on participants' reported initiation of sexual intercourse at sixteen months post-intervention? 2. What is the impact of the offer to participate in PGC-MS relative to the control group on participants' reports of ever smoking a cigarette at four months post-intervention? 3. What is the impact of the offer to participate in PGC-MS relative to the control group on participants' reports of ever using an electronic vapor product at four months post-intervention? 4. What is the impact of the offer to participate in PGC-MS relative to the control group on participants' reports of ever having a drink of alcohol at four months post-intervention? 5. What is the impact of the offer to participate in PGC-MS relative to the control group on participants' reports of ever using marijuana at four months post-intervention?

Researchers will compare participants randomized to receive PGC-MS (treatment group) to participants randomized to class-as-usual (which contains no sexual or reproductive health information (control group)).

Participants randomized to the treatment group will be offered PGC-MS over the course of their transition year into middle school (6th grade). Participants randomized to the control group will be offered class-as-usual.

What is being tested

• Peer Group Connection - Middle School (PGC-MS) (behavioral)

Sponsor: The Policy & Research Group · Participants: 1,400 · Started: Sep 1, 2024

Contact the study team

• Hilary Demby, MPH · Phone: 504-655-0982
• Kelly Burgess, MPH · Phone: 225-773-9162

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06582641

Locations in the U.S.

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.