Evaluation of Becoming a Responsible Teen in New Orleans, LA: findings from the replication of an evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program : final impact report for Louisiana Public Health Institute
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began a systematic review of the evidence on programs designed to reduce and prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This report describes an evaluation of Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART), one of the programs identified by the HHS review as having a positive effect on sexual behaviors. BART is an out-of-school, group-level, cognitive behavioral and skills training sexual education course designed to reduce African American adolescents' risk for contracting HIV. The authors of an individual-level randomized controlled study of BART report that it evidenced a positive statistically significant impact on social-cognitive behavioral antecedents to safer sex behaviors (e.g., knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy), increasing behavioral and social skills related to the practice of safe sex (e.g., ability to handle coercive situations), and reducing or delaying some sexual risk behaviors (e.g., engagement in sex, unprotected sex)
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