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Testing a Multilevel Preventive Intervention in Youth Courts

NCT02764099 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 423

Last updated 2019-01-14

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Summary

The proposed research is designed to adapt and test an evidence-based drug abuse prevention approach for use in youth courts among first-time, non-violent, adolescent offenders. The ultimate goal is to reduce the adverse health, legal, and social consequences of youth drug abuse, violence, and delinquency. Planned project activities include conducting: 1) key informant interviews of youth court directors regarding logistical and intervention features of effective youth court programming; and, 2) a randomized controlled efficacy trial of an adapted version of Life Skills Training, an evidence-based drug and violence prevention program. It is anticipated that the findings will provide critical information on implementing evidence-based prevention programs for new populations and settings and will support preparations for a large-scale effectiveness trial in youth peer courts.

Conditions

  • Drug Abuse

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Life Skills Training

The Life Skills Training (LST) program is a comprehensive competence enhancement prevention approach that teaches resistance skills while also emphasizing generic personal and social skills training. The LST program content and skills training is delivered to youth participants by trained providers through instruction, demonstration, behavioral rehearsal with feedback and social reinforcement, extended practice through homework assignments, and didactic teaching methods.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Health Promotion Associates, Inc.

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher Williams, Ph.D. · National Health Promotion Associates

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-05-31
Primary Completion
2018-07-31
Completion
2018-08-31

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