FINAL PROJECT FOR CEP 886 SUMMER 2010JENNIFER HEADLEY-NORDMAN

SARAH GOLDA JODI PETERSEN

The Teen Male Pregnancy Prevention Intervention

Outline

Background

Intervention

Evaluation

Background

Often under-considered group

Many negative external factors

Often high risk

Sexual health and risk taking behaviors are often an area of low concern

Background

Past literature shows: Risks for African American youth are cumulative

(Farmer, Price, Neal, Leung, Goforth, Cairnes, & Reese, 2004)

African American youth were found to be more likely to have an earlier onset of sexual activity, antisocial characteristics, anxious/depressed parents, and were more likely to become teen parents than other adolescents (Wei 1999)

More than ¼ of adolescents are open to the idea of having sex in middle school (Guilamo-Ramos, Jaccard, Dittus, Bouris, Holloway, Casillas, 2007)

Background

Past literature shows

Increasing self-esteem and internal locus of control can aid in reducing teen pregnancy rates (Hipps, 1997)

Youth are knowledgeable about AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), but are inconsistent in their protection behaviors because they felt other stressors in life such as poverty, drugs, and crime were more important to worry about than safe sex (Washington, 2003)

Intervention

“Encourage the development of specially designed self-esteem workshops for African-American teenagers that would strengthen their social negotiating skills from a cultural perspective. This would give young people the added strength needed to fight, literally, any inducements detrimental to their future positive development.”

-Dr. Dawson, Teen Sex, AIDS and Contraception: Part Two, Journal of the National Medical Association, Vol. 88 No. 2 pg 78

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2608013/pdf/jnma00379-0015.pdf

Intervention

Goal: reduce teen pregnancy rates

Intended recipients: Inner-city adolescent males

Multi-level Individual - Prevention of/or reduction in teen pregnancies

Group – An evolution in group norms or values as related to at risky sexual behavior.

Community – Improvement in community based resource funding and access.

Intervention

2x/week in school, 45 minutes

2x/week after school, 2 hours

5 weeks, 2 later refreshers

Intervention

Program Components Mentoring Sexual health education Relationships/boundary setting education Self esteem building Thought-behavior chain Goal setting & achieving Finding outside prosocial activities (sports, art, etc)

Parent communication

Evaluation

Risk matching with same grade males who did not participate in the intervention

Pre-Post surveys Sexual knowledge Sexual behavior Behavioral intentions Goal setting Knowledge of community resources