Clinical trial NCT04474158: Creating Peace: Community-based Youth Violence Prevention to Address Racism and Discrimination
Official title: Creating Peace: Community-based Youth Violence Prevention to Address Racism and Discrimination
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Adolescent Behavior
Group, Peer
Violence, Non-accidental
Violence, Sexual
Violence, Domestic
Emotional Abuse
Coping Skills
Communication, Personal
Lead sponsor: University of Pittsburgh
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
name: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
First posted: 2020-07-16
Enrollment: 1800
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 14
Maximum age (years): 19
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This cluster-randomized community-partnered study will examine the effectiveness of a trauma-sensitive, gender transformative youth violence prevention program called Creating Peace that integrates racism and discrimination prevention among youth ages 14-19. The study will be located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania across 24 neighborhoods with concentrated disadvantage ('clusters'), randomized either to receive the "Creating Peace" program (i.e., intervention neighborhood, n=12) or to a job skills training program (n=12 schools).
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This cluster-randomized community-partnered study will examine the effectiveness of a trauma-sensitive, gender transformative youth violence prevention program called Creating Peace that integrates racism and discrimination prevention with youth ages 14-19.

Detailed description: This community-partnered cluster-randomized controlled trial will examine the effectiveness of a trauma-sensitive, gender-transformative youth violence prevention program that integrates racism and discrimination prevention.

Set in 24 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with concentrated social and economic disadvantage, this study addresses gender and racial injustice through a series of group discussions, bringing together adolescents ages 14-19 with law enforcement officers in a process of social restoration.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Participants must be ages 14-19 (inclusive)
* Participants must speak English

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not ages 14-19 (inclusive)
* Do not speak English

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in recent use of any violence at 3 months
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
measure: Change in recent use of any violence at 9 months
timeFrame: At baseline and nine months after program.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in past 30 day weapon carrying at 3 months
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
measure: Change in past 30 day weapon carrying at 9 months
timeFrame: At baseline and nine months after program conclusion
measure: Change in positive bystander behaviors at 3 months
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
measure: Change in positive bystander behaviors at 9 months
timeFrame: At baseline and nine months after program conclusion
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Pittsburgh
country: United States
facility: University of Pittsburgh
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
name: Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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