Components Study of Relationship Education and Leadership Essentials Data, United States, 2022-2023 (ICPSR 39494)

Version Date: Nov 3, 2025

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Principal Investigator(s):
Jean Marie Tansey Knab, Mathematica Policy Research; Russell Cole, Mathematica Policy Research

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39494.v1

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Alternate Title

Components Study of REAL Essentials Data

Summary

In September 2020, the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) funded an exploratory implementation and outcome study to understand the components of REAL Essentials Advance (REA), a popular relationship education program intended for youth in high school.

The REA study occurred over two school years (2021-22 and 2022-23) and involved 27 schools with a total of 1,301 youth participating in cohorts during spring and fall 2022. Each school implemented a different collection of lessons (a scope and sequence) from the REA program, and a total of 40 different scope and sequences were observed in the study. The expectation was that variation in student experiences of lessons across these scopes and sequences would produce variation in levels of outcome improvement (e.g., a school that primarily offered lessons that focused on emotional regulation would tend to show larger improvement in emotional regulation outcomes than a school that did not offer these lessons).

Citation

Knab, Jean Marie Tansey, and Cole, Russell. Components Study of Relationship Education and Leadership Essentials Data, United States, 2022-2023. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-11-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39494.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Population Affairs (Award No. HHSP233201500035I/75P00120F37051)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, the data files in this collection are restricted from general dissemination. To obtain these restricted files, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2022-02-01 -- 2023-08-31 (Spring 2022 through Summer 2023)

Date of Collection

2022-02-01 -- 2023-08-31

Data Collection Notes

  1. For more information on the study files, the nesting structure of the data files, and the constructed variables, please refer to the User Guide.

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Study Purpose

The purpose of the study is to identify the individual components that matter most in promoting positive health behaviors and outcomes among adolescents.

Study Design

This is a complex descriptive study with a large number of quantitative data sources.

Sample

This descriptive study did not include sampling.

Time Method

Longitudinal

Universe

All high school age youth participating in a healthy relationship program during school.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Description of Variables

The datasets contain variables about bullying experiences, drug and alcohol use, sexual health, site specific selection and ordering of lessons, and participants' understanding of sexual consent, and risky social media posting behavior. Demographic variables include race, ethnicity and sex.

Response Rates

The study required active parental consent for participation. In total, 1,301 youth (51 percent of the eligible sample) consented to participate in the study. Student-level data collection was only conducted among the subset of youth whose parents provided consent for the study.

Youth outcome surveys were collected at three timepoints:

  • In total, 1,059 youth responded to the baseline survey (81.4 percent of the consented sample)
  • 1,080 youth responded to the immediate follow-up surveys (83.0 percent response rate)
  • 1,037 youth completed the long-term follow-up survey (79.7 percent response rate)

Youth exit tickets were collected after each class period of REA programming (REA Session). Over 7,000 exit tickets were completed by youth participating in the study (73 percent response rate).

Presence of Common Scales

Youth Outcome Survey:

Several Likert-type scales were used. A full list of sources for scales in the instrument are included in the User Guide, Exhibits 3-5.

Youth Exit Ticket:

Items 1-4 are based on the youth engagement scale developed by Troy et al. 2020. For more information, please refer to the related literature.

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Original Release Date

2025-11-03

Version History

2025-11-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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