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Evaluation of an Entrepreneurship Program for American-Indian Youth

NCT02157493 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 449

Last updated 2024-01-17

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Summary

This study will use a randomized controlled design to evaluate whether a youth entrepreneurship/life-skills intervention for reservation-based American Indian adolescents (ages 13-15) improves psychosocial, behavioral health, educational, and economic outcomes from baseline for up to 3 years follow-up as compared to a recreational sports league control condition.

Conditions

  • Depressive Symptoms
  • Substance Use

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Arrowhead Business Group Curriculum

Arrowhead Business Group (ABG) is a culturally tailored entrepreneurship/life-skills intervention, which features instruction from American Indian paraprofessionals in an effort to decrease drug use, depressive symptoms, hopelessness and other high-risk behaviors among youth while improving their school performance and college/career aspirations.

BEHAVIORAL

Recreational League Control Condition

The control condition will consist of a recreational sports league that will be led by local American Indian study staff who are experienced with Johns Hopkins camps and community-based Apache sports programs. Activities will be conducted on 3 Saturdays during the academic year to mixed gender groups of approximately 50 participants.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Native American Research Center for Health

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Allison Barlow, PhD, MPH, MA · Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-30
Primary Completion
2018-07-31
Completion
2019-06-25

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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