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Test of the Better Together Intervention

NCT06594835 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 54

Last updated 2024-09-19

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Summary

Better Together (BT) is a novel, culturally relevant library-based intervention designed to prevent substance use among Black youth (ages 11-13) affected by household challenges (i.e., parental substance use, parental incarceration, and parental mental health challenges). In partnership with public and school librarians, the investigators will conduct a randomized pilot study of BT with up to 100 youth across four sites in Baltimore, Maryland to assess:

1. Implementation fidelity via logs, assessments, and observations of participants and facilitators
2. Feasibility of all key research aspects, including recruitment, randomization, intervention, and control conditions, as well as pre, post, and one-month follow-up assessments
3. Initial effects of BT on substance use

Conditions

  • Substance Use

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Better Together

Better Together (BT) is a 90-min, age-appropriate, culturally relevant prevention intervention to prevent substance use among Black youth experiencing household challenges (ages 11-13) by addressing the multilevel influences of substance use.

BEHAVIORAL

Youth In the Media (YM)

Delivered in eight in-person, 90-minute sessions concurrently with BT sessions, the YM program was designed to (1) increase participants' awareness of and access to the different types of media and free resources available at the participants local libraries, (2) discuss different types of media that center stories and experiences of Black youth, and (3) expose participants to careers in media.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Terrinieka Powell, PhD · Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
11 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-09-01
Primary Completion
2024-05-01
Completion
2024-05-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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