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Scaling Effective Behavioral Interventions With MPC Avatar-Based Virtual Training

dfusion Inc · with Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) · NCT07880912

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18+ · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
365
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
August 8, 2026
Record last updated
October 19, 2026

Status re-checked against ClinicalTrials.gov within the last 12 hours.

What the study is about

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.

Being studied: MPC VISTA; Live Virtual Training

Conditions: Education, Sex

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

  • Adult aged 18 or older
  • Fewer than three years experience teaching sex ed
  • Current educator, educator in training or preservice teacher
  • Works with or plans to work with adolescents in school or community-based settings
  • Access to a video call-capable device with reliable internet connection
  • Able to commit to all study activities including pre- and post-assessment time points within the study timeline
  • English-speaking and teaches in English
  • No prior experience facilitating Making Proud Choices! or other Jemmott suite curriculum

Additional inclusion criteria for Student Outcomes Sub-Study participants only:

  • Currently employed in an active teaching role with adolescents in a school or community-based setting
  • Has or can obtain written site administrator approval to participate in the study and to deliver all 8 MPC modules to a student cohort during the study period
  • Able to identify a student cohort of at least 10 students with parental consent with whom they will deliver the full curriculum within the study timeline

Exclusion Criteria

  • Substudy only: Teachers who work primarily with students with special needs or IEP and therefore would require adaptations to the curriculum. The adaptations would then mean that the teachers cannot maintain fidelity to the curriculum.

Recruiting US locations

  • Virtual Study

    Scotts Valley, CA 95060

    Site contact: Parie Bhandari · 831-222-5003 · Parie.Bhandari@dfusioninc.com

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Parie Bhandari Reserach Coordinator, MPH · 831-222-5003 · Parie.Bhandari@dfusioninc.com
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