Clinical trial NCT05743478: Forging Hopeful Futures to Reduce Youth Violence
Official title: Forging Hopeful Futures: A Racial and Gender-Justice Program to Reduce Youth Violence
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Violence in Adolescence
Racism
Adolescent Behavior
Coping Skills
Communication, Social
Communication, Personal
Violence, Sexual
Violence, Non-accidental
Violence, Physical
Violence, Gender-Based
Lead sponsor: University of Pittsburgh
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Population Council
name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
First posted: 2023-02-24
Enrollment: 720
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 19
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This community-partnered cluster-randomized study will examine the effectiveness of a racial, gender, and economic justice focused youth violence prevention program called Forging Hopeful Futures among youth ages 13-19.The study will be located in 16 neighborhoods with concentrated disadvantage ('clusters') across Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and urban Washington D.C. and Maryland metro areas randomized either to receive the "Forging Hopeful Futures" program (i.e., intervention neighborhood, n=8) or wellness check-ins (i.e. control neighborhood, n=8).
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This cluster-randomized community-partnered study will examine the effectiveness of a racial-, gender-, and economic-justice focused youth violence prevention program called Forging Hopeful Futures with youth ages 13-19.

Detailed description: This community-partnered cluster randomized trial in 16 neighborhoods impacted by structural inequities and high levels of community violence in Pittsburgh, PA and urban Washington D.C. and Maryland metro areas will evaluate effectiveness of Forging Hopeful Futures with youth ages 13-19. Forging Hopeful Futures combines economic justice content from job readiness training, racial and gender justice content from gender-transformative programming, and leadership building as a novel multi-level violence prevention intervention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Participants must be ages 13-19 (inclusive)
2. Participants must speak English
3. Participants must live in the participating neighborhoods, attend schools in the participating neighborhoods, or use participating facilities
4. Participants must be able to provide follow up contact information

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Not ages 13 -19 (inclusive)
2. Do not speak English
3. Do not live in the participating neighborhoods, attend schools in the participating neighborhoods, or use participating facilities
4. Unable to provide follow up contact information

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in recent violence perpetration at 3 months
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in recent violence perpetration at 6 months
timeFrame: At baseline and six months after program conclusion
measure: Change in relationship abuse at 3 months
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
measure: Change in sexual violence perpetration at 3 months
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
measure: Change in cyber dating abuse and peer abuse
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
measure: Change in bullying perpetration
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
measure: Change in cyberbullying perpetration
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
measure: Change in weapon carrying
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
measure: Change in homophobic teasing
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
measure: Change in sexual harassment
timeFrame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Washington
country: United States
facility: Population Council
state: District of Columbia
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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