Clinical trial NCT05185453: Strengthening Adolescent-Adult Networks to Reduce Youth Violence
Official title: Strengthening Adolescent-Adult Networks to Reduce Youth Violence
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Violence in Adolescence
Social Interaction
Coping Skills
Adolescent Behavior
Keywords: social networks
social support
violence prevention
Lead sponsor: University of Pittsburgh
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
name: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
First posted: 2022-01-11
Enrollment: 74
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This pilot community-partnered cluster-randomized trial will examine the feasibility and acceptability of a social network-based youth violence prevention program called Strengthening Connections for Change for youth ages 13-17 and their key adult supports. The study will be located in four lower resource Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhoods ('clusters') randomized to receive either the Strengthening Connections for Change program (i.e. intervention neighborhoods, n=2) or to a job skills training program (i.e. control neighborhoods, n=2).
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This pilot community-partnered cluster-randomized trial will examine the feasibility and acceptability of a social network-based youth violence prevention program called Strengthening Connections for Change for youth ages 13-17 and their key adult supports.

Detailed description: This pilot community-partnered cluster-randomized trial will examine the feasibility and acceptability of a social network-based youth violence prevention program called Strengthening Connections for Change for youth ages 13-17 and their key adult supports. Set in four lower resource Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhoods, this study brings together youth ages 13-17 and their self-identified key adult supports to focus on leadership, strengthening intergenerational networks, community engagement, and violence prevention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Youth:

* Participants must be ages 13-17 (inclusive)
* Participants must speak English

Adults

* Participants must be ages 18 or older
* Participants must speak English

Exclusion Criteria:

Youth:

* Not ages 13-17 (inclusive)
* Do not speak English

Adults

* Less than 18 years of age
* Do not speak English

Primary outcomes:
measure: Participant Attendance
timeFrame: through intervention completion, 12 weeks
measure: Participant Overall Satisfaction With Curriculum Content and Format Assessed by Researcher-generated Likert-scale Items
timeFrame: end of program (12 weeks)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Participant Satisfaction With Weekly Session Content Assessed by Researcher-generated Likert-scale Items
timeFrame: end of program (12 weeks)
Other outcomes:
measure: Change in Social Network Composition
timeFrame: Baseline, end of program (12 weeks)
measure: Change in Violence Perpetration
timeFrame: Baseline, end of program (12 weeks)
measure: Change in Violence Victimization
timeFrame: Baseline, end of program (12 weeks)
measure: Change in Attitudes Towards Violence
timeFrame: Baseline, end of program (12 weeks)
measure: Change in Coping
timeFrame: Baseline, end of program (12 weeks)
measure: Change in Future Orientation
timeFrame: Baseline, end of program (12 weeks)
Locations:
city: Pittsburgh
country: United States
facility: University of Pittsburgh
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
name: Alison Culyba, MD PhD MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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