Safe, Healthy, Adolescent Relationships and Peers

Summary

The Safe, Healthy, Adolescent Relationships and Peers study seeks to understand some of the factors that contribute to the behaviors and health of teen girls, such as girl's friendships, their dating behaviors, their risk-taking behaviors, and their knowledge about how to make healthy choices. This study will inform us on ways to help teen girls engage in safe and healthy relationships and adjustment.

Conditions

• Juvenile Delinquency Unspecified
• Risk Behavior
• Adolescent Behavior
• Sexual Behavior
• Drug Use

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Parent Ed. and Youth Skills Coaching

The experimental intervention will have two components: (1) a caregiver parenting group, including all caregiver types (biological, foster, kinship), that meets weekly for 90-minutes for four months, focused on increasing parenting skills, and (2) a Life Coach component where trained and supported skills coaches meet individually with youth weekly for 60 minutes over the same four-month period to build the girls' social skills and peer/partner relationships skills.

BEHAVIORAL

Services as Usual

Services as usual as provided by community service organizations from which the sample was drawn.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Oregon Social Learning Center

  collaborator OTHER

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Oregon

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Leslie Leve, PhD · University of Oregon

• Patti Chamberlain, PhD · Oregon Social Learning Center

• Rohanna Buchanan, PhD · Oregon Social Learning Center

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

13 Years

Max Age

18 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-07-01

Primary Completion

2019-08-31

Completion

2022-12-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations