Table 1.
Outcomes and measures for In the Know.
Domains | Description | |
Primary outcomes | ||
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Condom/contraceptive use or no sex | Past 3 months |
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Use of clinical health services | Past 3 months |
Secondary outcomes | ||
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Number of sexual partners (oral, vaginal, and anal) | Past 3 months |
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Knowledge of clinical sexual health services | Knows where to get sexual health information or services (yes, no, or not sure) |
Other outcomes | ||
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Healthy relationship skills | Perceived ability to refuse sex and ask partner for HIV/STIa testing |
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Career and educational success | Current school enrollment and participation in job training or vocational program |
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Goal-setting skills | Frequency of working on educational or career goal and making plans to reach goals |
Moderators and covariates | ||
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Demographics | Age, race/ethnicity, and language spoken at homeb; gender identity and sexc; and grade level, sexual orientation, living situation, and housing instability |
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Sexual health education | Ever received and topics coveredb |
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General health education | Ever received and topics coveredb |
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Life skills education | Ever receivedb |
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Technology ownership and use | Technology owned, used technology to access sexual health information and health services; location where accesses internetb; and websites or apps used to find health information and servicesd |
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Arrest or juvenile detention history | Ever and past 3 months |
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Gang-related activities | Past 3 months |
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Dating violence | Past 3 months |
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Cyberbullying | Ever experienced |
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Sexual behavior (oral, vaginal, and anal) | Ever, frequency in the past 3 months, and drug or alcohol use before sex in the past 30 days |
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Sexual and reproductive health services | Likelihood of seeking |
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Tested positive for STI | Ever and past 3 months |
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Pregnancy and childbearing history | Ever pregnancy and number of children |
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Sexual and reproductive health knowledge | Sexual and reproductive health knowledge scale |
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Communication with adults | Frequency of talking with trusted adults and comfort level talking about sex with parent |
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Employment skills | Perceived skills writing a resume, cover letter, budget, or interviewing for job |
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Life skills | Successfully managing stress, resolving conflict, respectful toward other, and confidently communicating ideas in the past 3 months |
aSTI: sexually transmitted infection.
bMeasured at baseline only.
cMeasured at baseline and 3 months.
dMeasured at 3 and 9 months.