One-Year Follow-up After a Pregnancy Prevention Intervention for LGB+ Teens: An RCT. 2023

Michele Ybarra, and Margaret Rosario, and Elizabeth Saewyc, and Carol Goodenow, and Shira Dunsiger
Center for Innovative Public Health Research, San Clemente, California.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority (LGB+) girls are more likely than heterosexual girls to be pregnant during adolescence. Nonetheless, LGB+ inclusive pregnancy prevention programming is lacking. Between January 2017 and January 2018, 948, 14 to 18 year-old cisgender LGB+ girls were enrolled in a national randomized controlled trial. Girls were assigned either to Girl2Girl or an attention-matched control group. They were recruited via social media and enrolled over the telephone. The 5-month intervention consisted of a 7-week program (4-12 text messages sent daily) and a 1-week booster delivered 12 weeks later. Longitudinal models of protected sex events had a negative binomial distribution and a log link function. Longitudinal models examining use of birth control assumed a Bernoulli distribution of the outcome variable and a logit link function. Models adjusted for baseline rate of the outcome, age, and a time-varying indicator of sexual experience. Girl2Girl participants had higher rates of protected penile-vaginal sex events over time compared with controls. Girl2Girl participants also were more likely than control participants to report use of birth control other than condoms. Models of abstinence and pregnancy rates did not suggest statistically significant group differences across time. However, effect sizes were in the small to medium range and point estimates favored Girl2Girl versus control in both cases. Girl2Girl is associated with sustained pregnancy preventive behaviors for LGB+ girls through 12 months postintervention. Text messaging could be considered as a viable method to increase access to sexual health programming to adolescents nationally.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D011247 Pregnancy The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH. Gestation,Pregnancies
D001727 Bisexuality The sexual attraction or relationship between members of both the same and the opposite SEX.
D005260 Female Females
D005500 Follow-Up Studies Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease. Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000072339 Sexual and Gender Minorities Individuals including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, gender non-conforming people, and other populations whose sexual orientation or GENDER IDENTITY and reproductive development is considered outside cultural, societal, or physiological norms. Gays,Gender Diverse,LGBTQ,LGBTQIA,Bisexuals,GLBT Persons,Gender Minorities,Homosexuals,LBG Persons,LGBT Persons,LGBTQ Persons,Lesbians,Lesbigay Persons,Men Who Have Sex With Men,Non-Heterosexual Persons,Non-Heterosexuals,Queers,Sexual Dissidents,Sexual Minorities,Women Who Have Sex With Women,Bisexual,Dissident, Sexual,Dissidents, Sexual,Diverse, Gender,GLBT Person,Gay,Gender Minority,Homosexual,LBG Person,LGBT Person,LGBTQ Person,Lesbian,Lesbigay Person,Minorities, Gender,Minorities, Sexual,Minority, Gender,Minority, Sexual,Non Heterosexual Persons,Non Heterosexuals,Non-Heterosexual,Non-Heterosexual Person,Person, GLBT,Person, LBG,Person, LGBT,Person, LGBTQ,Person, Lesbigay,Person, Non-Heterosexual,Persons, GLBT,Persons, LBG,Persons, LGBT,Persons, LGBTQ,Persons, Lesbigay,Queer,Sexual Dissident,Sexual Minority
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D012725 Sexual Behavior Sexual activities of humans. Anal Sex,Oral Sex,Sexual Activity,Sexual Orientation,Premarital Sex Behavior,Sex Behavior,Sex Orientation,Sexual Activities,Activities, Sexual,Activity, Sexual,Behavior, Premarital Sex,Behavior, Sex,Behavior, Sexual,Orientation, Sexual,Sex, Anal,Sex, Oral
D020010 Heterosexuality The sexual attraction or relationship between members of the opposite SEX. Heterosexuals,Heterosexual

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