Education, SexMPC VISTANCT07880912
Scaling Effective Behavioral Interventions With MPC Avatar-Based Virtual Training
A study testing MPC VISTA and Live Virtual Training in people with Education, Sex, run by dfusion Inc at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
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. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Education, Sex
- What is being tested?
- MPC VISTA and Live Virtual Training
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 365 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 8 Aug 2026to May 2027
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- 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
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- 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
Who cannot join
- 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.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
United States1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Virtual Study
Scotts Valley, California, 95060
Parie Bhandari, 831-222-5003, Parie.Bhandari@dfusioninc.com
Tamara Kuhn, tamara.kuhn@dfusioninc.com
About this study
Official title: Evaluation of Scaling Effective Behavioral Interventions With MPC Avatar-Based Virtual Training
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.
Read more
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.
Read the detailed description
This project will establish the efficacy of MPC: VISTA, an online simulation-based training, in improving the knowledge, teaching skill, and confidence of educators who deliver Making Proud Choices!, an evidence-based teen pregnancy and HIV/STI prevention curriculum. A randomized controlled trial is being conducted to assess the impact of the training on educator knowledge, self-efficacy, and teaching fidelity, and on the knowledge and attitudes of the students those educators go on to teach.
Participants will be educators and health educators in training, aged 18 and older, who work with or plan to work with adolescents and have no prior experience teaching Making Proud Choices! and no prior training in Making Proud Choices! or related curricula. Educators with more than three years of general sex education teaching experience, or who are or have been enrolled in another Making Proud Choices! study, will also be excluded.
Participants are primarily being recruited through educator training programs, professional listservs, purchased email lists, social media, and direct outreach through existing networks. It is also likely that participants will refer other eligible educators to the study.
The study design is a three-arm randomized waitlist-controlled trial with pre- and post-training assessment. After completing baseline activities, a survey and a video-recorded teaching skill assessment, participants will be randomly assigned to one of three groups (approximately 55 each). The treatment group will receive immediate access to MPC: VISTA, a self-paced online training completed over about 8 hours within 6 weeks. The live virtual training group will receive a live, instructor-led Training of Educators lasting approximately 7 hours, also within 6 weeks. The waitlist group will continue their normal professional activities during this period with no formal training. All participants will then complete a post-training survey and a second video-recorded teaching skill assessment. At the conclusion of the study, the live virtual training and waitlist groups will be given free access to MPC: VISTA.
A subset of treatment group educators with access to students will go on to teach Making Proud Choices! to their own classes. Their students will complete a survey before and after the full course of instruction to assess change in knowledge and attitudes about safer sex practices.
- Conditions
- Education, Sex
- Being tested
- MPC VISTA, Live Virtual Training
- Keywords
- teen pregnancy prevention, training of educators, online professional development, Making Proud Choices
- Medical subject headings
- Coitus
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
MPC VISTAOther
An online training for health educators to develop classroom teaching skills when facilitating the Making Proud Choices! curriculum.
Live Virtual TrainingOther
A live training facilaited online.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| MPC VISTA | Experimental | 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. Receives: Other: MPC VISTA |
| Live Virtual Training | Active comparator | 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. Receives: Other: Live Virtual Training |
| Waitlist Control | No intervention | This arm will receive no training. This arm will serve as the comparison group to the other to arms. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Educator Knowledge of Making Proud Choices! Content and Related Sexual Health Facts
Educator knowledge of Making Proud Choices! (MPC) curriculum content and related sexual health facts, including HIV/STI transmission and prevention, pregnancy, and condom use. Assessed via a study-developed multiple-choice/scenario-based test scored as the number of items answered correctly. The survey contains 11 items.
Measured: Baseline (T1), 6 week (T2)
Student Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs About Safer Sex Practices
Composite of student-level knowledge and belief domains assessed via a study survey: HIV/STI, pregnancy, condom, and contraception knowledge (11 items, scored as percent correct); and 8 attitude/belief subscales covering condom-related beliefs (hedonistic, prevention, availability-control), negotiation/refusal self-efficacy, beliefs about sex and future goals, attitudes toward abstinence/safer sex, and attitudes toward consent (each rated on a 1-5 agreement scale, higher = more protective attitude). Domains are analyzed separately rather than combined into a single score, consistent with the original Making Proud Choices! evaluation measures on which most items are based.
Measured: Baseline (T1) and after the final session of Making Proud Choices - approximately 8 weeks apart (T2)
Educator Teaching Skill Demonstrated via Response to Virtual Classroom Vignettes
Educator teaching skill assessed via an asynchronous video assessment. Educators watch short video vignettes depicting realistic Making Proud Choices! classroom moments (e.g., a values-based student question, activity facilitation and debrief) and record a real-time video response demonstrating what they would say and do, as though teaching that moment live (a 'teachback'). Responses are scored by trained raters using a structured coding rubric. The rubric will assign points across a defined set of teaching-skill criteria per vignette; higher total scores will indicate stronger demonstrated teaching skill.
Measured: Before randomization (baseline) and after completion of the training period (post-training), within approximately 6 weeks of randomization
Secondary outcomes (3)
Educator Perceptions of MPC: VISTA's Relative Advantage, Compatibility, Ease of Use, and Result Demonstrability
Technology adoption measure (adapted from Moore \& Benbasat, 1991) assessing educators' perceptions of MPC: VISTA across 4 subscales: relative advantage, compatibility, ease of use, and result demonstrability (3 items each, 12 items total), rated on a 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree) scale. Each subscale score is the mean of its 3 items (range 1-7), with higher scores indicating a more favorable perception of the training. Administered only to educators randomized to the MPC: VISTA arm, at post-training only.
Measured: Immediately following completion of training (post-training only); treatment (MPC: VISTA) arm only
Training Usability of MPC: VISTA
Post-Study System Usability Questionnaire (PSSUQ; Lewis, 1995), 19 items rated on a 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree) scale, with an 'N/A' option. Produces an overall usability score and 3 subscale scores: system usefulness (7 items), information quality (6 items), and interface quality (6 items). Each score is the mean of its items (range 1-7), with higher scores indicating greater perceived usability. Administered only to educators randomized to the MPC: VISTA arm, at post-training only.
Measured: Immediately following completion of training (post-training only); treatment (MPC: VISTA) arm only
Educator Teaching Skill Demonstrated in Simulated MPC Classroom Scenarios
Educator teaching skill assessed via 3 written classroom scenarios depicting realistic Making Proud Choices! facilitation moments (a values-based student question and two activity-facilitation/debrief situations). For each scenario, the educator describes what they would say and do.
Measured: Baseline (t1), 6 weeks post (t2)
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted19 Oct 2026
- Study start8 Aug 2026
- Primary completionMay 2027 (estimated)
- Study completionMay 2027 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Education, SexStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 365 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- dfusion Inc
- Sponsor type
- Industry (pharma, biotech, devices)
- Collaborators
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Mia Barrett, MEd, Principal investigator, dfusion Inc
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07880912
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- MPCVISTA
- Other IDs
- R44HD094406
- Acronym
- MPC VISTA
- Status last verified
- Oct 2026
- First submitted
- 21 Aug 2026
- Last updated
- 19 Oct 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 19 Oct 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Evaluation of Scaling Effective Behavioral Interventions With MPC Avatar-Based Virtual Training
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07880912
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- MPC VISTA / MPCVISTA
- Conditions
- Education, Sex
- Keywords
- teen pregnancy prevention, training of educators, online professional development, Making Proud Choices
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Enrolment
- 365 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- dfusion IncIndustry (pharma, biotech, devices)
- Collaborators
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Study start
- 8 Aug 2026 (actual)
- Primary completion
- May 2027 (estimated)
- Study completion
- May 2027 (estimated)
- First posted
- 19 Oct 2026 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
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.
Detailed description
This project will establish the efficacy of MPC: VISTA, an online simulation-based training, in improving the knowledge, teaching skill, and confidence of educators who deliver Making Proud Choices!, an evidence-based teen pregnancy and HIV/STI prevention curriculum. A randomized controlled trial is being conducted to assess the impact of the training on educator knowledge, self-efficacy, and teaching fidelity, and on the knowledge and attitudes of the students those educators go on to teach.
Participants will be educators and health educators in training, aged 18 and older, who work with or plan to work with adolescents and have no prior experience teaching Making Proud Choices! and no prior training in Making Proud Choices! or related curricula. Educators with more than three years of general sex education teaching experience, or who are or have been enrolled in another Making Proud Choices! study, will also be excluded.
Participants are primarily being recruited through educator training programs, professional listservs, purchased email lists, social media, and direct outreach through existing networks. It is also likely that participants will refer other eligible educators to the study.
The study design is a three-arm randomized waitlist-controlled trial with pre- and post-training assessment. After completing baseline activities, a survey and a video-recorded teaching skill assessment, participants will be randomly assigned to one of three groups (approximately 55 each). The treatment group will receive immediate access to MPC: VISTA, a self-paced online training completed over about 8 hours within 6 weeks. The live virtual training group will receive a live, instructor-led Training of Educators lasting approximately 7 hours, also within 6 weeks. The waitlist group will continue their normal professional activities during this period with no formal training. All participants will then complete a post-training survey and a second video-recorded teaching skill assessment. At the conclusion of the study, the live virtual training and waitlist groups will be given free access to MPC: VISTA.
A subset of treatment group educators with access to students will go on to teach Making Proud Choices! to their own classes. Their students will complete a survey before and after the full course of instruction to assess change in knowledge and attitudes about safer sex practices.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 3
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| MPC VISTA | Experimental | Other: MPC VISTAThis 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. |
| Live Virtual Training | Active comparator | Other: Live Virtual TrainingThis 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. |
| Waitlist Control | No intervention | –This arm will receive no training. This arm will serve as the comparison group to the other to arms. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (12 listed)
- 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
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- 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.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| MPC VISTAAn online training for health educators to develop classroom teaching skills when facilitating the Making Proud Choices! curriculum. | Other | MPC VISTA |
| Live Virtual TrainingA live training facilaited online. | Other | Live Virtual Training |
Primary outcome
Educator Knowledge of Making Proud Choices! Content and Related Sexual Health Facts
Time frame: Baseline (T1), 6 week (T2)
Educator knowledge of Making Proud Choices! (MPC) curriculum content and related sexual health facts, including HIV/STI transmission and prevention, pregnancy, and condom use. Assessed via a study-developed multiple-choice/scenario-based test scored as the number of items answered correctly. The survey contains 11 items.
Student Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs About Safer Sex Practices
Time frame: Baseline (T1) and after the final session of Making Proud Choices - approximately 8 weeks apart (T2)
Composite of student-level knowledge and belief domains assessed via a study survey: HIV/STI, pregnancy, condom, and contraception knowledge (11 items, scored as percent correct); and 8 attitude/belief subscales covering condom-related beliefs (hedonistic, prevention, availability-control), negotiation/refusal self-efficacy, beliefs about sex and future goals, attitudes toward abstinence/safer sex, and attitudes toward consent (each rated on a 1-5 agreement scale, higher = more protective attitude). Domains are analyzed separately rather than combined into a single score, consistent with the original Making Proud Choices! evaluation measures on which most items are based.
Educator Teaching Skill Demonstrated via Response to Virtual Classroom Vignettes
Time frame: Before randomization (baseline) and after completion of the training period (post-training), within approximately 6 weeks of randomization
Educator teaching skill assessed via an asynchronous video assessment. Educators watch short video vignettes depicting realistic Making Proud Choices! classroom moments (e.g., a values-based student question, activity facilitation and debrief) and record a real-time video response demonstrating what they would say and do, as though teaching that moment live (a 'teachback'). Responses are scored by trained raters using a structured coding rubric. The rubric will assign points across a defined set of teaching-skill criteria per vignette; higher total scores will indicate stronger demonstrated teaching skill.
3 secondary outcomes
Educator Perceptions of MPC: VISTA's Relative Advantage, Compatibility, Ease of Use, and Result Demonstrability
Time frame: Immediately following completion of training (post-training only); treatment (MPC: VISTA) arm only
Training Usability of MPC: VISTA
Time frame: Immediately following completion of training (post-training only); treatment (MPC: VISTA) arm only
Educator Teaching Skill Demonstrated in Simulated MPC Classroom Scenarios
Time frame: Baseline (t1), 6 weeks post (t2)
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 19 Oct 2026.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
Mia Barrett, MEd principal investigator
dfusion Inc
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing MPC VISTA and Live Virtual Training in people with Education, Sex, run by dfusion Inc at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 12 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 19 Oct 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Parie Bhandari Reserach Coordinator, MPH (831-222-5003, Parie.Bhandari@dfusioninc.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Educator Knowledge of Making Proud Choices! Content and Related Sexual Health Facts (time frame: Baseline (T1), 6 week (T2)). The study lists 3 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 19 Oct 2026.