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HEALTHY (Health Education Adolescent Leadership Training to Help Youth) Leaders

NCT01708291 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 45

Last updated 2015-11-23

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Summary

This project will measure baseline stress among a group of youth in foster and kinship care. The investigators will implement a pilot program to target stress reduction by using an evidence-based group therapy technique teaching mindfulness skills. The investigators hypothesize that the mindfulness skills will help youth to reduce stress, which will be measured using psychological and physiological techniques.

Conditions

  • Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness based stress reduction

an 8 week group intervention to teach mindfulness skills

BEHAVIORAL

only pre and post evaluation measures

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Rochester

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-10-31
Primary Completion
2013-04-30
Completion
2013-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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