PASHA Program Archive ST19

WHAT COULD YOU DO? Interactive Video Intervention to Reduce Adolescent Females’ STD Risk
Julie Downs, PhD, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, PhD, Claire Palmgren, Baruch Fischhoff, PhD, Pamela Murray, MD, MPH, Joyce Penrose, DPH, RN-C

WHAT COULD YOU DO? provides a cost-effective method of delivering an STD risk-reduction intervention for adolescent females. The intervention aims to increase knowledge of STDs, decrease sexual risk behaviors, and decrease STD acquisition. Following the completion of baseline measures, participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (one experimental, two control). Booster sessions followed at one, three and six months after the initial intervention.

Participants in the video (experimental) condition were more likely to have been completely abstinent from baseline to the three-month follow-up (OR = 2.5, p = 0.027). There was a trend toward more condom use and fewer condom failures among the participants of the video condition.