Table 1.
Condom use skills, and perceived self-efficacy, parent-adolescent sexual risk communication and parental monitoring among youth in the four intervention and control groups over 18 months observation
| Variables | Overall | Intervention groups |
F | Post-hoc | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HFLE (Only) (1) | BFOOY+CImPACT (2) | BFOOY+GFI (3) | BFOOY (Only) (4) | ||||
| Condom use skills | (2,564) | (772) | (664) | (559) | (569) | ||
| Baseline | 10.4(2.2) | 10.3(2.2) | 10.5(2.1) | 10.5(2.2) | 10.6(2.1) | 3.49* | (1,4) |
| 6-month follow-up | 11.5(2.3) | 10.9(2.2) | 11.9(2.4) | 11.5(2.3) | 11.6(2.0) | 18.77*** | (1,2) (1,3) (1,4) |
| 12-month follow-up | 11.7(2.2) | 11.2(2.3) | 12.2(2.2) | 11.7(2.2) | 11.8(2.2) | 15.85*** | (1,2) (1,3) (1,4) (2,3) (2,4) |
| 18-month follow-up | 11.7(2.3) | 11.3(2.2) | 12.3(2.1) | 11.7(2.4) | 11.7(2.2) | 18.87*** | (1,2) (1,3) (1,4) (2,3) (2,4) |
| Increase (18-month-baseline) | 1.2(2.5) | 1.0(2.5) | 1.7(2.5) | 1.2(2.5) | 1.0(2.6) | 9.24*** | (1,2) (2,3) (2,4) |
| Self-efficacy | |||||||
| Baseline | 3.9(1.1) | 3.9(1.1) | 3.9(1.2) | 3.8(1.2) | 4.0(1.1) | 1.49 | |
| 6-month follow-up | 4.2(0.9) | 4.2(1.0) | 4.3(0.8) | 4.3(0.9) | 4.2(1.0) | 1.19 | |
| 12-month follow-up | 4.4(0.8) | 4.3(0.8) | 4.5(0.7) | 4.3(0.8) | 4.3(0.8) | 3.47* | (1,2) (2,3) |
| 18-month follow-up | 4.4(0.8) | 4.4(0.8) | 4.5(0.7) | 4.4(0.8) | 4.4(0.8) | 2.11 | |
| Increase (18-month-baseline) | 0.5(1.1) | 0.5(1.1) | 0.6(1.1) | 0.5(1.2) | 0.4(1.0) | 0.95 | |
| Communication | |||||||
| Baseline | 2.7(1.2) | 2.7(1.2) | 2.7(1.2) | 2.7(1.2) | 2.7(1.2) | 0.39 | |
| 6-month follow-up | 2.7(1.2) | 2.6(1.2) | 2.8(1.2) | 2.7(1.2) | 2.6(1.3) | 1.89 | |
| 12-month follow-up | 2.7(1.2) | 2.7(1.2) | 2.8(1.2) | 2.6(1.2) | 2.5(1.2) | 3.59* | (1,4) (2,4) |
| 18-month follow-up | 2.7(1.3) | 2.6(1.2) | 2.8(1.3) | 2.6(1.3) | 2.6(1.2) | 3.81** | (1,2) (2,4) |
| Increase (18-month-baseline) | 0.0(1.2) | 0.0(1.2) | 0.2(1.3) | −0.1(1.2) | −0.1(1.2) | 3.90** | (2,3) (2,4) |
| Parental monitoring | |||||||
| Baseline | 4.2(0.8) | 4.2(0.7) | 4.2(0.8) | 4.2(0.8) | 4.2(0.8) | 0.76 | |
| 6-month follow-up | 4.2(0.8) | 4.2(0.7) | 4.2(0.8) | 4.2(0.7) | 4.1(0.8) | 0.49 | |
| 12-month follow-up | 4.1(0.8) | 4.2(0.8) | 4.2(0.8) | 4.1(0.8) | 4.1(0.8) | 2.11 | |
| 18-month follow-up | 4.1(0.8) | 4.1(0.8) | 4.2(0.8) | 4.2(0.8) | 4.0(0.9) | 2.65* | (2,4) |
| Increase (18-month-baseline) | −0.1(0.8) | −0.1(0.8) | −0.1(0.7) | −0.1(0.8) | −0.2(0.8) | 1.32 | |
Note: BFOOY= Bahamian Focus on Older Youth; CImPACT= Caribbean Informed Parents and Children Together; GFI=Goal for It; HFLE=Bahamian Health and Family Life Education. BFOOY+CImPACT represents youth assigned to the adolescent sexual risk reduction intervention whose parents were assigned to the communication/sexual risk reduction intervention; BFOOY+GFI represents youth assigned to the adolescent sexual risk reduction intervention whose parents were assigned to the goal-setting intervention; BFOOY (only) represents youth assigned to the adolescent sexual risk reduction intervention whose parents did not receive an intervention; HFLE represents youth who received the school's standard of care and their parents received no intervention.
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