Recruiting

Safe Dates

Sponsor:

RTI International

Code:

NCT07226401

Conditions

Gender-based Violence

Intimate Partner Violence

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 16 - 21

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Virtual Safe Dates for Young Parents

HealthSmart

Study Details

Brief summary:

This project will study virtual delivery of Safe Dates for Young Parents (SDYP), a 10-session, group-based intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention program tailored for adolescents and young adults who are pregnant or parenting. This program has the potential to improve the health and well-being of young parents and their children, and virtual delivery may improve participants' ability to attend. The main questions it aims to answer are: (1) Is it feasible and acceptable to implement SDYP in a virtual setting? (2) Are SDYP participants less likely to experience IPV than participants in an alternate health education program? Participants will be invited to a series of virtual program sessions for either SDYP or a health education program focused on physical activity and nutrition and will be asked to complete surveys before the programs begin and up to 6 months later.

Conditions

Gender-based Violence

Intimate Partner Violence

Study ID

NCT07226401

Start date

Nov 11, 2025

Status verified date

Dec, 2025

Completion date

Jul 31, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun 1, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 16 - 21

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

Pregnant or parenting youth (Pilot RCT participants)

  • Aged 16-21 years.
  • Currently pregnant, partner of a pregnant person, or parenting a child (i.e., have contact with child at least once per week).
  • Able to speak and read English.
  • Willing and able to provide written informed consent.
  • Willing and able to provide adequate contact/locator information.

Facilitators (IDI participants)

  • Aged 18 years or older.
  • Trained and served as a facilitator of the virtual SDYP intervention.
  • Able to speak and read English.
  • Able and willing to provide verbal informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria (Pilot RCT participants):

  • Has any other condition that, in the opinion of the PI or their designee, would preclude informed consent, make study participation unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives.
  • Currently participating or will be participating in a violence prevention education program in the next 3 months.
  • Previously participated in the Empowering Young Parents study.

Study Design

Enrollment

80 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Virtual Safe Dates for Young Parents

Participants assigned to the intervention group will be offered the Safe Dates for Young Parents (SDYP) program activities focused on healthy relationships and intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention. This program will consist of 10 modules, with sessions that are 60-90 minutes each. The intervention will be done with groups via zoom and will be led by a trained facilitator.

active comparator: HealthSmart

The study will use an equal attention control condition where control group participants will be offered lessons on physical activity and nutrition from the HealthSmart digital high school curriculum. To achieve consistent dosage with SDYP, ten lessons will be chosen from the curriculum. This program will not provide education about IPV or healthy relationships content that composes the SDYP intervention. The intervention will be done with groups via zoom and will be led by a trained facilitator.

Interventions

Virtual Safe Dates for Young Parents

Safe Dates for Young Parents (SDYP) is a healthy relationship and intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention program, adapted from "Safe Dates (Foshee et al., 1998; Foshee et al., 1996)" for pregnant or parenting young adults. The investigators adapted the prevention curriculum and related intervention materials for virtual delivery via Zoom. The program consists of ten group-based sessions (50 minutes of content each) led by a trained facilitator. The program includes interactive discussions, analysis of scenarios, games, role-plays, and brainstorming.

HealthSmart

The HealthSmart program will use 10 digital high school curriculum lessons focused on physical activity and nutrition. The sessions will be formatted appropriately to be delivered via zoom. Participants may be asked to complete handouts, listen to presentations, and participate in discussions. Topics may include information about different nutrients, how nutrients affect health, how to read food labels, healthy eating, and guidelines for physical activity.

Primary outcome measure

  • Participant attendance [ Time Frame: From the first to the last session of SDYP (typically 10 weeks) ]
  • Participant engagement [ Time Frame: From the first to the last session of SDYP (typically 10 weeks) ]
  • Program adherence [ Time Frame: From the first to the last session of SDYP (typically 10 weeks) ]
  • Physical IPV perpetration [ Time Frame: Past 3 months measured at baseline and 3 to 6 months after baseline ]
  • Physical IPV victimization [ Time Frame: Past 3 months measured at baseline and 3 to 6 months after baseline ]
  • Psychological IPV perpetration [ Time Frame: Past 3 months measured at baseline and 3 to 6 months after baseline ]
  • Psychological IPV victimization [ Time Frame: Past 3 months measured at baseline and 3 to 6 months after baseline ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Marni Kan, PhD

919-485-2756mkan@rti.org

Marie Stoner, PhD

510-665-8285mcstoner@rti.org

Locations

RTI International

Recruiting

Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27713

Contacts

Marni Kan

919-485-2756mkan@rti.org

Marie Stoner

5106658285mcstoner@rti.org

More Information

Sponsor

RTI International

Last update posted

Dec 15, 2025

Last verified

Dec, 2025

Keywords

  • Young Adult Parents
  • Adolescent Pregnancy

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by RTI International on 2025-12-15.