About this trial

This study will involve evaluating Health-E You/Salud ìTu™, a web-based, pre-visit mobile app designed to support adolescent male youth and his clinicians in discussing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) topics and care. It will test its efficacy among male patients in clinical settings using a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial design.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Assigned male sex at birth

Age 13 to 21 years old

English and/or Spanish as preferred language to read, listen, and converse

Self-reported engagement in vaginal and/or anal sex in the past 12 months

Disqualifiers

Aged 12 or younger or older than 21

Primary language other than English or Spanish

Not able to provide informed consent

Unable to communicate due to cognitive, mental, language, or other difficulties

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Health-E You app

Treatment groups

2,752 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Locations

8
California
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - Oakland94609, Oakland United States
District of Columbia
Children's National Hospital20012, Washington D.C. United States
Maryland
Johns Hopkins University21287, Baltimore United States
New York
Mount Sinai Health System10128, New York United States

Sponsors and collaborators

Johns Hopkins University

Lead sponsor

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Collaborator