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The safer sex intervention (SSI): impact findings from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Replication Study : research brief
The safer sex intervention (SSI): impact findings from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Replication Study : research brief
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- Safer sex intervention: impact evaluation findings
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services, issuing body.
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, issuing body.
United States. Office of Adolescent Health, issuing body.
Abt Associates issuing body. - Publication:
- [Cambridge, Massachusetts] : Abt Associates, [2018]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Pregnancy in Adolescence -- prevention & control
Safe Sex
Sexual Behavior
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- This research brief highlights findings from the evaluation of the Safer Sex Intervention (SSI), a program originally designed to prevent sexually transmitted infections in young women who are sexually active. The findings are based on two follow-up surveys administered to study participants nine and 18 months after they enrolled in the study. The study is designed to examine the impact of SSI on adolescent sexual behavior as well as on cognitive and psychological aspects of adolescent functioning that might influence that behavior. It includes data from three different replications of SSI. Summary of Findings. After 9 months SSI had a statistically significant impact on young women's use of birth control when they engaged in sexual intercourse. Almost six percent fewer program participants had unprotected sex, compared with non-participants. A smaller, though no longer statistically significant, difference in the use of protection persisted through the longer-term follow-up (almost three percent fewer program participants than non-participants). At the longer-term follow-up, SSI had a promising effect (p=.07) on the proportion of program participants who became pregnant over the 18-month period (16% vs. 19.4%). The program had no effect on other sexual behaviors or their consequences at either time-point. In the short-term, SSI demonstrated positive effects on some intermediate outcomes, namely attitudes towards use of protection and intention to use a condom during sexual intercourse, as well as perceived refusal skills. Some of these effects were sustained through the longer-term follow-up, although in most cases the difference was no longer significant. Two additional impacts emerged at the longer-term follow-up: young women in the program group were significantly more likely to reject risky sexual behavior, and to believe that they could successfully negotiate condom use with a partner.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101777691 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101777691