Safe, Healthy, Adolescent Relationships and Peers
| Status: | Active, not recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Psychiatric |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Psychiatry / Psychology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 13 - 18 |
| Updated: | 1/26/2019 |
| Start Date: | July 1, 2014 |
| End Date: | December 31, 2019 |
Preventing Drug Use and Risk Behaviors in Adolescent Girls
The Safe, Healthy, Adolescent Relationships and Peers study seeks to understand some of the
factors that contribute to the behaviors and health of teen girls, such as girl's
friendships, their dating behaviors, their risk-taking behaviors, and their knowledge about
how to make healthy choices. This study will inform us on ways to help teen girls engage in
safe and healthy relationships and adjustment.
factors that contribute to the behaviors and health of teen girls, such as girl's
friendships, their dating behaviors, their risk-taking behaviors, and their knowledge about
how to make healthy choices. This study will inform us on ways to help teen girls engage in
safe and healthy relationships and adjustment.
Initiation of drug use and participation in sexual-risk behaviors such as having multiple
sexual partners, unprotected sexual intercourse, and intercourse with drug users are all too
common among girls with at-risk histories, such as those who have experienced poverty, abuse,
neglect, or been in the juvenile justice system. Studies consistently find that these girls
have disproportionately high rates of these problems that, in addition to increasing risk for
negative outcomes, have other costly sequelae such as drug addiction, early pregnancy,
sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV contraction, delinquency, and early mortality
(e.g., Santelli et al., 2001; Stueve et al., 2005). In our prior work, the investigators
showed that the investigators could prevent early onset sexual intercourse and tobacco and
marijuana initiation in pre-teen girls in foster care. Although this intervention, delivered
to girls who were 11-years old and had not yet entered middle school, demonstrated efficacy,
the investigators know very little about how to prevent the more serious and costly
sexual-risk and illicit drug use behaviors in at-risk girls during the high school years, a
period of risk for engagement in such behaviors. This study builds from this prior work to
develop a new intervention for teenage girls with early adversity.
sexual partners, unprotected sexual intercourse, and intercourse with drug users are all too
common among girls with at-risk histories, such as those who have experienced poverty, abuse,
neglect, or been in the juvenile justice system. Studies consistently find that these girls
have disproportionately high rates of these problems that, in addition to increasing risk for
negative outcomes, have other costly sequelae such as drug addiction, early pregnancy,
sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV contraction, delinquency, and early mortality
(e.g., Santelli et al., 2001; Stueve et al., 2005). In our prior work, the investigators
showed that the investigators could prevent early onset sexual intercourse and tobacco and
marijuana initiation in pre-teen girls in foster care. Although this intervention, delivered
to girls who were 11-years old and had not yet entered middle school, demonstrated efficacy,
the investigators know very little about how to prevent the more serious and costly
sexual-risk and illicit drug use behaviors in at-risk girls during the high school years, a
period of risk for engagement in such behaviors. This study builds from this prior work to
develop a new intervention for teenage girls with early adversity.
Inclusion Criteria:
- reside in Lane County and within 70 miles of the University of Oregon
- have a current caregiver
- both girl and caregiver are fluent in English
Exclusion Criteria:
- are medically fragile
- have a significant developmental disability
- have graduated from high school or have a General Educational Diploma (GED)
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