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Effectiveness of Treatment for Relational Aggression in Urban African American Girls

NCT00510094 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 144

Last updated 2015-06-04

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Summary

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based social cognitive group treatment in reducing aggression (bullying) among relationally aggressive urban African American girls.

Conditions

  • Aggression

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Friend to Friend program

Friend to Friend arm is a social information processing group treatment to help aggressive girls learn better social problem solving and decision making choices. Participants will learn how to identify signs of physiological arousal, evaluate others' intentions, react to a potential conflict situation, and generate and evaluate alternatives. Treatment sessions are twice per week (30 to 40 minutes per session) for ten weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

Psychoeducational attention control intervention

Psychoeducational attention control group also meets two times per week for 10 weeks to control for nonspecific factors of treatment. Participants learn homework, study skills, and organizational skills.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Stephen S. Leff, PhD · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-10-31
Primary Completion
2014-05-31
Completion
2015-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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