Evaluation of the SafeSpace App Intervention
Child Trends
Summary
The goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of SafeSpace Sexual Health App, an innovative sexual health promotion program focused on reducing sexual risk factors and promoting sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing among young people assigned female or intersex at birth, particularly Black and/or Latine youth, LGBTQ+ youth, youth in states with high teen birth rates and youth who live in rural communities. This study utilizes a two-arm randomized control trial design to measure impacts of receiving the SafeSpace Sexual Health program compared to receiving a similar-length control app program, SafeSpace General Health that focuses on general health. The investigators will ask participants to: * Keep the SafeSpace app downloaded to their device and visit the app regularly over the course of 10 weeks. * Provide contact information. * Receive and open app push notifications for 10 weeks (up to 3 per week). * Complete 3 online surveys over a year: baseline, short-term follow-up (10 weeks after baseline), and long-term follow up (9 months after short-term follow-up). * Receive occasional text messages from the study team.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 14–18 years
- Sex
- Female
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Participants must be assigned female or intersex at birth * Participants must be youth in the U.S. (14-18 years old) * Participants must have daily access to an iPhone Exclusion Criteria: \- Participants must not be currently pregnant or currently trying to become pregnant Other Criteria: \- The study's priority/preference population is for Black and/or Latine youth, LGBTQ+ youth, youth from geographic areas with high teen birth rates, and youth living in rural areas.
Interventions
- BehavioralSafeSpace Sexual Health
The overall goal of the program is to prevent adolescent pregnancy and STIs by increasing sexual agency, increasing the use of condoms and contraception, and promoting healthy relationships and healthy life skills among adolescents.
- BehavioralSafeSpace General Health
This arm represents the comparison group. SafeSpace General Health will act as the active comparator, while providing youth with lessons, facts, and resources about general health topics.
Location
- Child TrendsBethesda, Maryland