Recruiting

MPC: VISTA

Sponsor:

dfusion Inc

Code:

NCT07880912

Conditions

Education, Sex

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

MPC VISTA

Live Virtual Training

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this study is to learn if MPC: VISTA, an online training program, helps teachers and health educators deliver Making Proud Choices!, a program that helps teens lower their risk of pregnancy and HIV/STIs. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • Does completing MPC: VISTA improve educators' knowledge, confidence, and teaching skills more than live virtual training or no training? Do students taught by these educators show improvements in their knowledge and attitudes about safer sex practices?
  • Researchers will compare MPC: VISTA to live virtual instructor-led training and to a waitlist group (no training during the study period) to see if online training prepares educators as well as, or better than, live training.

Participants will:

  • Be placed by chance into one of three groups: MPC: VISTA training, live virtual training, or a waitlist
  • Complete surveys and a short teaching skills assessment before and after the training period
  • Receive MPC: VISTA training for free after the study ends, if not already assigned to it
  • (A smaller group of educators who go on to teach Making Proud Choices! to their own students) have those students complete surveys about their knowledge and attitudes before and after instruction.

Conditions

Education, Sex

Study ID

NCT07880912

Start date

Aug 8, 2026

Status verified date

Oct, 2026

Completion date

May, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

May, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adult aged 18 or older
  • Fewer than three years experience teaching sex ed
  • Current educator, educator in training or preservice teacher
  • Works with or plans to work with adolescents in school or community-based settings
  • Access to a video call-capable device with reliable internet connection
  • Able to commit to all study activities including pre- and post-assessment time points within the study timeline
  • English-speaking and teaches in English
  • No prior experience facilitating Making Proud Choices! or other Jemmott suite curriculum

Additional inclusion criteria for Student Outcomes Sub-Study participants only:

  • Currently employed in an active teaching role with adolescents in a school or community-based setting
  • Has or can obtain written site administrator approval to participate in the study and to deliver all 8 MPC modules to a student cohort during the study period
  • Able to identify a student cohort of at least 10 students with parental consent with whom they will deliver the full curriculum within the study timeline

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Substudy only: Teachers who work primarily with students with special needs or IEP and therefore would require adaptations to the curriculum. The adaptations would then mean that the teachers cannot maintain fidelity to the curriculum.

Study Design

Enrollment

365 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Other

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: MPC VISTA

This are will receive the intervention. This intervetion is access to the MPC VISTA online training program, about 8 hours in duration. The online training platform includes a curriculum covering teaching skills, classroom management skills, fidelity to the MPC curriculum, anwering student questions, HIV, STI, and pregnancy prevention knowledge, and information about the activities with the MPC curriculum.

active comparator: Live Virtual Training

This arm will receive access to a live virtual training. This training will take place online via video conferencing and will cover teaching skills, classroom management skills, fidelity to the MPC curriculum, anwering student questions, HIV, STI, and pregnancy prevention knowledge, and information about the activities with the MPC curriculum.

no intervention: Waitlist Control

This arm will receive no training. This arm will serve as the comparison group to the other to arms.

Interventions

MPC VISTA

An online training for health educators to develop classroom teaching skills when facilitating the Making Proud Choices! curriculum.

Live Virtual Training

A live training facilaited online.

Primary outcome measure

  • Educator Knowledge of Making Proud Choices! Content and Related Sexual Health Facts [ Time Frame: Baseline (T1), 6 week (T2) ]
  • Student Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs About Safer Sex Practices [ Time Frame: Baseline (T1) and after the final session of Making Proud Choices - approximately 8 weeks apart (T2) ]
  • Educator Teaching Skill Demonstrated via Response to Virtual Classroom Vignettes [ Time Frame: Before randomization (baseline) and after completion of the training period (post-training), within approximately 6 weeks of randomization ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Parie Bhandari Reserach Coordinator, MPH

831-222-5003Parie.Bhandari@dfusioninc.com

Locations

Virtual Study

Recruiting

Scotts Valley, California, United States, 95060

Contacts

Parie Bhandari

831-222-5003Parie.Bhandari@dfusioninc.com

Tamara Kuhn

tamara.kuhn@dfusioninc.com

Principal Investigator:

Mia Barrett

More Information

Sponsor

dfusion Inc

Last update posted

Oct 19, 2026

Last verified

Oct, 2026

Keywords

  • teen pregnancy prevention
  • training of educators
  • online professional development
  • Making Proud Choices

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-10-20. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by dfusion Inc on 2026-10-19. Recruitment status is synced daily from ClinicalTrials.gov and may not reflect the sponsor's current status. Confirm during your call.