Implications for Practice and Research
DISEASE
From a programming standpoint, these effects observed at 3 months are striking because they are the result of a brief and effortless (from the point of view of clinic staff and participants) intervention. Plan A is a brief, low-resource, and low-burden intervention for black and Hispanic female adolescents that can be easily scaled and incorporated into clinic settings; this is in contrast with many of the existing TPP interventions that are both time and resource-intensive, requiring multiple sessions and trained facilitators (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, This study can contribute to the corpus of research that has investigated the effects of EE interventions on STI screening and acquisition (Downs et al., 