A Mobile Phone Application for Advancing Teen Pregnancy Prevention Mobile Phone App for Linking Adolescents to Local Pregnancy Prevention Resources

Increasing girls' access to medically accurate, comprehensive & confidential sexual health information is critical in sustaining the momentum in teen pregnancy reduction. Our goal is to put the power of sexual health information in English & in Spanish in the hands of millions of girls through Crush 2.0 a youth-engaging mobile application grounded in the Theory of Planned behavior and self-efficacy. Our aims are to: 1) scale-up Crush 1.0 into a media-rich, highly interactive & educational application: 2) test its usability and efficacy in increasing consistent use of effective contraception & utilization of clinical services through a randomize control trial with repeated measures with girls ages 14 to 18, and 3) widely disseminate to a national audience. Linear & logistic multivariate models will assess differences in outcome behaviors between both groups, and will examine the association between theoretical constructs and sexual behavior, and the behavioral outcome. We expect to see both increase intention & actual consistency in contraception use & clinic utilization at three and six moth follow-up. Efficacy & usability testing of Crush 2.0 will expand our knowledge on the potential of using education mobile applications for behavior change.