Clinical trial NCT02840383: Trial of a Health Promoting School Approach to Positive Youth Development and Wellness Promotion
Official title: Participatory Trial of a Health Promoting School Approach to Positive Youth Development and Wellness Promotion
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Adolescent School Connectedness
Adolescent Health
Community Based Participatory Research Methods
Lead sponsor: University of Minnesota
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
name: SoLaHmo
First posted: 2016-07-21
Enrollment: 811
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 14
Maximum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Assess the effects of a school-based multi-component intervention on school connectedness, school engagement, and developmental assets through a group randomized, participatory trial.

Detailed description: Health Promoting Schools intervention including pilot-tested teacher professional development, student-defined enhanced environment, and parent-defined enhanced community/family connection. The Coalition will finalize the intervention using a phased intervention map that integrates community perspectives with theoretical approaches to evidence based practices. The study aims will be accomplished through a group randomized trial in 10 urban schools with diverse populations representing approximately 1,900 students.

Aim 1: Assess the effects of a school-based multi-component intervention on school connectedness, school engagement, and developmental assets through a group randomized, participatory trial.

Hypothesis 1a: Students in the intervention schools will experience improved school connectedness, engagement and developmental assets compared to the control group.

Aim 2: Assess the effects of a school-based multi-component intervention on emotional well-being, tobacco and other substance use, and academic outcomes through a group randomized, participatory trial.

Hypothesis 2a: Students in the intervention schools will experience improved emotional well-being, course completion, attendance, and decreased disciplinary action and substance use compared to the control group.

Aim 3: Evaluate the relationships between participatory factors , school intervention implementation, and study outcomes.

Exploratory hypothesis 3a: Perceptions of quality of collaborative processes will be associated with degree of school intervention implementation and study outcomes.

Exploratory hypothesis 3b: School capacities and context will be associated with school intervention implementation and study outcomes.

Exploratory hypothesis 3c: School capacities and context will mediate the relationship between quality of collaborative processes and school intervention implementation.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 9th grade students
* enrolled in the school at the time of randomization

Exclusion Criteria:

* Being unable to participate in the survey

Primary outcomes:
measure: Baseline student school connectivity on a scale of 1-10
timeFrame: 5 years
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Minneapolis
country: United States
facility: University of Minnesota
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Minnesota, Department of Family Medicine
name: Michele Allen, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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