Avatar-Based Virtual Training for Gender Education
(MPC VISTA Trial)
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
The goal of this study is to learn if MPC: VISTA, an online training program, helps teachers and health educators deliver Making Proud Choices!, a program that helps teens lower their risk of pregnancy and HIV/STIs. The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Does completing MPC: VISTA improve educators' knowledge, confidence, and teaching skills more than live virtual training or no training? Do students taught by these educators show improvements in their knowledge and attitudes about safer sex practices?
* Researchers will compare MPC: VISTA to live virtual instructor-led training and to a waitlist group (no training during the study period) to see if online training prepares educators as well as, or better than, live training.
Participants will:
* Be placed by chance into one of three groups: MPC: VISTA training, live virtual training, or a waitlist
* Complete surveys and a short teaching skills assessment before and after the training period
* Receive MPC: VISTA training for free after the study ends, if not already assigned to it
* (A smaller group of educators who go on to teach Making Proud Choices! to their own students) have those students complete surveys about their knowledge and attitudes before and after instruction.
Who Is on the Research Team?
Mia Barrett, MEd
Principal Investigator
dfusion Inc
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
This trial is for teachers and health educators who may teach the Making Proud Choices! program to teens. Participants should be able to take part in online or virtual training sessions and complete surveys before and after training.Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Interventions
- Live Virtual Training
- MPC: VISTA
Trial Overview
The study compares an online avatar-based training (MPC: VISTA), live virtual instructor-led training, and a waitlist group to see which best improves educators' skills, knowledge, and confidence in teaching about safer sex practices.
How Is the Trial Designed?
3
Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
This are will receive the intervention. This intervetion is access to the MPC VISTA online training program, about 8 hours in duration. The online training platform includes a curriculum covering teaching skills, classroom management skills, fidelity to the MPC curriculum, anwering student questions, HIV, STI, and pregnancy prevention knowledge, and information about the activities with the MPC curriculum.
This arm will receive access to a live virtual training. This training will take place online via video conferencing and will cover teaching skills, classroom management skills, fidelity to the MPC curriculum, anwering student questions, HIV, STI, and pregnancy prevention knowledge, and information about the activities with the MPC curriculum.
This arm will receive no training. This arm will serve as the comparison group to the other to arms.
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
dfusion Inc
Lead Sponsor
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Collaborator
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