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Does a specially designed teacher-led sex education programme reduce sexual risk-taking? A randomised controlled trial of SHARE in Scottish schools
ISRCTN ISRCTN48719575
DOI 10.1186/ISRCTN48719575
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier
EudraCT number
Public title Does a specially designed teacher-led sex education programme reduce sexual risk-taking? A randomised controlled trial of SHARE in Scottish schools
Scientific title
Acronym N/A
Serial number at source E354/77
Study hypothesis To evaluate whether a specially designed teacher-delivered sex education programme for young people aged 13-15 has any effect on sexual risk taking and the incidence of unwanted sexual outcomes
Lay summary
Ethics approval Not provided at time of registration
Study design Randomised controlled trial
Countries of recruitment United Kingdom
Disease/condition/study domain Public health, social medicine
Participants - inclusion criteria Non-denominational secondary state schools in Tayside and Lothian Regions and pupils attending these schools.
Participants - exclusion criteria Roman Catholic schools and pupils who opt out of the research.
Anticipated start date 01/01/1996
Anticipated end date 25/06/2005
Status of trial Completed
Patient information material
Target number of participants 24 schools, 7200 pupils (3400 in each arm)
Interventions Teacher-delivered sex education programme/control
Primary outcome measure(s) Cumulative termination rate by age 20 and reported incidence of first intercourse without a condom.
Secondary outcome measure(s) Cognitions associated with safer sex, reported coercive sexual encounters, regretted sexual experience, use of sexual health services, etc.
Sources of funding Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)
Trial website
Publications 2007 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17118950
Contact name Dr  Daniel  Wight
  Address MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
4 Lilybank Gardens
  City/town Glasgow
  Zip/Postcode G12 8RZ
  Country United Kingdom
  Email
Sponsor Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)
  Address 20 Park Crescent
  City/town London
  Zip/Postcode W1B 1AL
  Country United Kingdom
  Tel +44 (0)20 7636 5422
  Fax +44 (0)20 7436 6179
  Email clinical.trial@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
  Sponsor website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk
Date applied 25/10/2000
Last edited 03/08/2009
Date ISRCTN assigned 25/10/2000
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