Development and Evaluation of an HIV, STD, and Pregnancy Prevention Program for Middle School Students

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan R. Tortolero ◽  
Christine M. Markham
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Pregnancy Prevention ◽  
School Students ◽  
Pregnancy Prevention Program

scholarly journals Examination of the Relationship between Psychosocial Mediators and Intervention Effects in It’s Your Game: An Effective HIV/STI/Pregnancy Prevention Intervention for Middle School Students

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Baumler ◽  
Jill Glassman ◽  
Susan Tortolero ◽  
Christine Markham ◽  
Ross Shegog ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Pregnancy Prevention ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
School Students ◽  
Psychosocial Mediators ◽  
Pregnancy Prevention Program

A set of mediation analyses were carried out in this study using data from It’s Your Game. . .Keep It Real (IYG), a successful HIV/STI/pregnancy prevention program. The IYG study evaluated a skill and normbased. HIV/STI/pregnancy prevention program that was implemented from 2004 to 2007 among 907 urban low-income middle school youth in Houston, TX, USA. Analyses were carried out to investigate the degree to which a set of proposed psychosocial measures of behavioral knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, behavioral, and normative beliefs, and perceived risky situations, all targeted by the intervention, mediated the intervention’s effectiveness in reducing initiation of sex. The mediation process was assessed by examining the significance and size of the estimated effects from the mediating pathways. The findings from this study provide evidence that the majority of the psychosocial mediators targeted by the IYG intervention are indeed related to the desired behavior and provide evidence that the conceptual theory underlying the targeted psychosocial mediators in the intervention is appropriate. Two of the psychosocial mediators significantly mediated the intervention effect, knowledge of STI signs and symptoms and refusal self-efficacy. This study suggests that the underlying causal mechanisms of action of these interventions are complex and warrant further analyses.

scholarly journals Preliminary Evaluation of a Prescription Opioid Misuse Prevention Program Among Rural Middle School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1139-1148
Author(s):  
Reina Evans ◽  
Laura Widman ◽  
Hannah Javidi ◽  
Elizabeth Troutman Adams ◽  
Sam Cacace ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Prescription Opioid ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Opioid Misuse ◽  
School Students ◽  
Rural Middle School ◽  
Prescription Opioid Misuse

scholarly journals Stepwise Development of BullyDown, a Text Messaging-Based Bullying Prevention Program for Middle School Students (Preprint)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele L Ybarra ◽  
Tonya L Prescott ◽  
Dorothy L Espelage
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Bullying Prevention ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
School Students ◽  
Beta Test

BACKGROUND Bullying is a significant public health issue among middle school-aged youth. Current prevention programs have only a moderate impact. Cell phone text messaging technology (mHealth) can potentially overcome existing challenges, particularly those that are structural (e.g., limited time that teachers can devote to non-educational topics). To date, the description of the development of empirically-based mHealth-delivered bullying prevention programs are lacking in the literature. OBJECTIVE To describe the development of BullyDown, a text messaging-based bullying prevention program for middle school students, guided by the Social-Emotional Learning model. METHODS We implemented five activities over a 12-month period: (1) national focus groups (n = 37 youth) to gather acceptability of program components; (2) development of content; (3) a national Content Advisory Team (n = 9 youth) to confirm content tone; and (4) an internal team test of software functionality followed by a beta test (n = 22 youth) to confirm the enrollment protocol and the feasibility and acceptability of the program. RESULTS The focus group recruitment experience suggests that Facebook advertising was less efficient than using a recruitment firm. Sixth grade youth had difficulty engaging in the bulletin board-style focus groups, suggesting that participants may need to be in at least 7th grade to have the writing skills for this research activity. Feedback from the Content Advisory Team suggests a preference for 2-4 brief text messages per day. Beta test findings suggest that BullyDown is both feasible and acceptable: 100% of youth completed the follow-up survey, 86% of whom liked the program. CONCLUSIONS Text messaging appears to be a feasible and acceptable delivery method for bullying prevention programming delivered to middle school students.

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