Clinical trial NCT04192318: Evaluating Outcomes for Youth Receiving Hospital-based Violence Prevention With and Without a Community-level Initiative
Official title: Evaluating Outcomes for Youth Receiving Hospital-based Violence Prevention With and Without a Community-level Initiative
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Violence in Adolescence
Lead sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
First posted: 2019-12-10
Enrollment: 2
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 21
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: FACTORIAL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this research study is to test if a hospital-based violence prevention strategy with a community-level initiative is effective for cross-cutting violence prevention in violently injured youth.

Detailed description: This study will test if youth who receive the Bridging the Gap (BTG) and Communities that Care (CTC Plus) will see greater improvements than youth who either receive BTG only, CTC Plus only or no intervention. This study will allow researchers to learn more about the intervention's effectiveness for a range of violent outcomes. It will also help researchers understand if violence prevention efforts affect other behaviors, such as drug use and rates of violent re-injury.

Participants will be asked to complete surveys about their behavior, personality, and experiences, and their parent/child's personality, behavior, and experiences. These surveys take about 45-60 minutes to complete. These questionnaires will be completed before the intervention has taken place and then again 6 months later. Participation in this study will last up to 6 months. Approximately 408 individuals will participate in this study.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Violently injured youth receiving treatment at VCU
2. Aged between 12 and 21 years old
3. Living in Richmond City

1. Parent/caregiver of the youth participant 2. Parent/caregivers must be 18 years old or older

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Non-English speaking
2. Ages \<12 and \>21 years
3. Prisoners are excluded

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in youth violence - self report
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 months
measure: Change in youth violence - caregiver report
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 months
measure: Change in youth dating violence
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 months
measure: Change in youth sexual violence
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Re-injury rate
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Community resources
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Lost to follow-up rates
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change in trauma symptoms
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 months
measure: Change in substance use
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 months
measure: Change in alcohol use
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Richmond
country: United States
facility: Virginia Commonwealth University
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
name: Nicholas Thomson, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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