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| Department of Health and Human Services | FED |
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This project will test the effectiveness of offering healthy marriage and relation education for youth as part of the regular school curriculum and examine whether providing enhanced training and support for facilitators shows promise for enhancing the effects on high school students. The evaluation will examine a range of students' relationship outcomes, including their attitudes toward relationships, their knowledge of healthy relationships, their communication skills, and the characteristics of their current relationship.
Family Bridges will deliver the "Relationship Smarts +" program to students at 10 Chicago-area high schools. The RS+ curriculum will be delivered to 9th grade students in the target schools and classrooms during the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. The curriculum's 12 sessions will be delivered over a period of about 12 weeks during the winter quarter, with an average of one session taught per week.The lessons cover topics such as personal values, the principals of smart relationships, communication and conflict management, and sexual decision making. Using a three-arm randomized controlled trial design, this study will test the effectiveness of offering RS+ as part of the regular school curriculum on the students' knowledge of healthy relationships, their communication skills, and the characteristics of their current relationship. In addition to testing the effects of the curriculum, the study will also test the effects of providing enhanced training and support to facilitators.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Control | Placebo Comparator | Control group members will receive an alternate curriculum that is not related to relationship education. Family Bridges has identified a computer programming curriculum, Codeacademy, that teaches students how to use HTML. |
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| RS+ | Experimental | The RS+ curriculum's 12 sessions will be delivered over a period of about 12 weeks during the winter quarter, with an average of one session taught per week. The lessons cover topics such as personal values, the principals of smart relationships, communication and conflict management, and sexual decision making. |
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| RS+ with enhanced facilitator support | Experimental | The RS+ curriculum's 12 sessions will be delivered over a period of about 12 weeks during the winter quarter, with an average of one session taught per week. The lessons cover topics such as personal values, the principals of smart relationships, communication and conflict management, and sexual decision making. Affiliates assigned to this enhanced treatment group will participate in enhanced facilitator training and support activities. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| RS+ | Behavioral | The curriculum's 12 sessions will be delivered over a period of about 12 weeks during the winter quarter, with an average of one session taught per week. The lessons cover topics such as personal values, the principals of smart relationships, communication and conflict management, and sexual decision making. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Knowledge about Healthy Relationships | audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices. | end of programming (approx. 12 weeks after beginning of programming ) |
| Attitudes about Healthy Relationships | audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices. | end of programming (approx. 12 weeks after beginning of programming ) |
| Knowledge about Healthy Relationships | audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices. | 1 year follow-up |
| Attitudes about Healthy Relationships | audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices. | 1 year follow-up |
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| Communications skills | audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices. | end of programming (approx. 12 weeks after beginning of programming ) |
| Characteristics of current romantic relationship |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Diane Paulsell | Mathematica Policy Research | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Family Bridges, Inc. | Oak Park | Illinois | 60302 | United States |
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| D001519 | Behavior |
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| Codeacademy | Behavioral | a computer programming curriculum, Codeacademy, that teaches students how to use HTML. |
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audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices.
| end of programming (approx. 12 weeks after beginning of programming ) |
| Communications skills | audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices. | 1 year follow-up |
| Characteristics of current romantic relationship | audio computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (ACASI) software on tablet devices. | 1 year follow-up |