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A Multi-level Approach to Violence Prevention Among African American Adolescents

NCT03615716 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2019-08-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The overall goal of this study is to advance the science of youth violence prevention and the social determinants of health by using a community-driven approach to implement a comprehensive intervention. The objective of the proposed project is to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an innovative, multi-level intervention that promotes adolescent protective factors and reduces risk behaviors among African American youth residing in Birmingham. Alabama.

Conditions

  • Violence in Adolescence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Multi-level Violence Prevention Intervention - Boys

Comprehensive, Multi-level Violence Prevention Intervention. The intervention consists of three components: (1) a 15-week after-school program, (2) group mentoring, and (3) community enhancement activities. Adolescents and mentors will attend a 2-hour weekly session at a community center, and will conduct up to four community enhancement activities. At the end of the program, a graduation celebration will be planned, and parents/guardians and stakeholders (e.g., coalition members) will be invited.

BEHAVIORAL

Multi-level Violence Prevention Intervention - Caregivers

This is arm is measuring the Multi-level Violence Prevention Intervention that is administered to the boys, from the perspectives of their caregivers. The caregivers themselves will not receive an intervention, but their perspectives of the impact on the interventions on the boys will be examined

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yu-Mei Schoenberger, PhD · The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
11 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-11
Primary Completion
2019-06-12
Completion
2019-06-12

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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