NCT02816424: TEMPO

Brief Intervention for Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Completed NA Last updated 24 May 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Teens Exploring and Managing Prevention Options (TEMPO) in Teen Pregnancy Prevention in 447 participants. Completed in 20 August 2021.

Timeline

11 November 2015

Primary endpoint
20 August 2021

20 August 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of New Mexico
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	447
Start date	11 November 2015
Primary completion	20 August 2021
Estimated completion	20 August 2021
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Teens Exploring and Managing Prevention Options (TEMPO)

Conditions studied

• Teen Pregnancy Prevention — all drugs for Teen Pregnancy Prevention →

Sponsor

University of New Mexico

Who can join

Adults 13 to 19, any sex, with Teen Pregnancy Prevention. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Although the Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine recommend that teen health providers screen for sexual risk behaviors and provide education and counseling to those at risk, there are currently no specific guidelines or protocols available to guide such practices, nor have there been any rigorous evaluations of efficacy. Preventing teen pregnancy through brief intervention in primary care holds the promise to have a significant public health impact and reduce health disparities by engaging, educating, and motivating the majority of teens who visit a primary care setting each year. In the current study, we seek to rigorously evaluate the impact of brief intervention vs. informational control on unprotected sexual intercourse among teens with past year unprotected sex at two primary care clinics serving predominately underserved, minority populations in New Mexico. The target population for the current study will be 1350 male and female teens, aged 13-19, from the Atrisco Center for Family and Community Health and the Albuquerque Job Corps Wellness Center. Extensive formative work involving the study population will be conducted prior to the trial to refine the motivational interviewing-based brief intervention. Eligible youth will be randomly assigned to brief intervention or an informational control condition, in addition to regularly offered medically-based contraception consultation and prescription services. Follow-ups at 3- and 9- months will compare rates of unprotected sex and acceptance of long-acting reversible contraceptives. Brief education and counseling interventions could be feasibly implemented during the greater than eight preventive and acute primary care visits that the average US adolescent attends during their teen years. Such an approach could conserve valuable resources required by more intensive interventions for nonresponsive teens with greater need. Furthermore, social determinants of health, such as poverty and race, that may reduce access to more extensive psychosocial interventions, are less likely to prevent access to primary care, increasing health equity.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.