"Educational Intervention 'Be Yourself': Digital Innovation to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy"

Launched by UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEON · Feb 8, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

The clinical trial titled "Be Yourself" is designed to help prevent teenage pregnancy by encouraging young people to make informed choices about their sexual health. Each year, millions of teenagers around the world become parents, which can lead to various challenges for both them and their children. This trial aims to test a new educational program that uses a website and an AI chatbot to motivate adolescents aged 11 to 15 years, who are enrolled in public high schools in Monterrey, Mexico, to take charge of their own decisions regarding pregnancy prevention.

To participate in this trial, teens must be between 11 and 15 years old, attend a public high school in the area, and have access to a computer with internet. They can be either boys or girls, and it doesn't matter if they have already started being sexually active. However, those who have taken part in similar programs before or have certain cognitive challenges that might make it hard for them to understand the material won’t be eligible. By joining this program, participants will engage in sessions that provide important information and resources, helping them feel empowered to make safe choices about their futures.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Adolescents between 11 and 15 years of age enrolled in public high schools in Nuevo León will be included.
• • public high schools in Nuevo León.
• • Be male or female, regardless of whether they have initiated their sexual life. sexually active.
• • Have access to a computer room with internet to use the web page and the interventions chatbot.
• • the interventions chatbot.
• • Live at the same address with their parents or legal guardian.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Have previously participated in a similar sexuality intervention.
• • Have cognitive or developmental difficulties that impede their understanding of the intervention and use of the technology platform, including people with
• • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at levels that affect functional communication, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with severe attention difficulties, or those who cannot read and write.