Clinical trial NCT03876171: Culturally Modified Family Based Therapy for Haitian Youth in South Florida
Official title: Culturally Modified Family Based Therapy for Haitian Youth in South Florida
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Problem Behavior
Lead sponsor: University of Miami
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2019-03-15
Enrollment: 35
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This study will develop and implement a culturally specific, family-based individual, drug use, sexual risk and delinquency risk reduction program for Haitian adolescents aged 13-17 in Miami-Dade County. The goal of the pilot study is to obtain preliminary data on CIFFTA's feasibility, cultural acceptability and efficacy.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The CIFFTA study is a unique intervention that will develop and implement a culturally-specific, family-based individual, drug use, sexual risk and delinquency risk reduction program for Haitian youth ages 13-17 in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Detailed description: Haitian youth in Miami-Dade County who become part of the juvenile justice system have not received culturally appropriate remediating or rehabilitative attention by that system. This study will modify a specific variety of intervention, the Culturally Informed and Flexible Family-Based Treatment for Adolescents (CIFFTA) for appropriateness in Miami's Haitian cultural contexts. This study will develop and implement a culturally specific, family-based adolescent therapy, drug use, sexual risk and delinquency risk reduction program for Haitian adolescents aged 13-17 in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria :

* Adolescents aged 13 to 17
* Place of residence is Miami-Dade
* Has Haitian ancestry
* Adolescents not incarcerated
* No prior mental health care or history of psychoactive medication
* Adolescents who have lived in the US for 3 years

Exclusion Criteria:

- Youths with a documented history of mental retardation and/or organic dysfunction.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of Participants That Completes the Intervention:
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Number of Participants With Sustained Abstinence in Substance Use
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Number of Participants Who Reported Sustained Abstinence in Substance Use
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Change in Family Functioning Assessed by the Family Environment Scale (FES)
timeFrame: Baseline, 12 months
measure: Change in Conduct Disorder as Assess by Revised Behavior Problem Checklists
timeFrame: baseline, 12 months
measure: Change in Sexual Risk Behaviors as Assess by the Comprehensive Adolescent Severity Inventory (CASI)
timeFrame: baseline, 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of Participants With Recidivism in Delinquency
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Number of Participants With Peer Gang Involvement
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Change in Family Communication by Parenting Style Questionnaire (PSQ)
timeFrame: baseline, 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Miami
country: United States
facility: University of Miami
state: Florida
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Miami
name: Louis H Marcelin, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Cela T, Marcelin LH, Waldman R, Dembo R, Demezier D, Clement R, Arcayos A, Santisteban D, Jean-Gilles M, Hogue A. Haitian and Haitian American experiences of racism and socioethnic discrimination in Miami-Dade county: At-risk and court-involved youth. Fam Process. 2023 Mar;62(1):216-229. doi: 10.1111/famp.12764. Epub 2022 Mar 10.
citation: Marcelin LH, Cela T, Dembo R, Jean-Gilles M, Page B, Demezier D, Clement R, Waldman R. Remote delivery of a therapeutic intervention to court-mandated youths of Haitian descent during COVID-19. J Community Psychol. 2021 Sep;49(7):2938-2958. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22559. Epub 2021 Mar 18.