Creating Peace: Community-based Youth Violence Prevention to Address Racism and Discrimination

Adolescent Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

Creating Peace: Community-based Youth Violence Prevention to Address Racism and Discrimination

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04474158
• Other study ID #: STUDY18110082
• Secondary ID: 5R01MD013797-02
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 4, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: University of Pittsburgh
• Contact: Lauren Risser, MPH
• Phone: 412-692-8504
• Email: lauren.risser[@]chp.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This cluster-randomized community-partnered study will examine the effectiveness of a trauma-sensitive, gender transformative youth violence prevention program called Creating Peace that integrates racism and discrimination prevention with youth ages 14-19.

Description:

This community-partnered cluster-randomized controlled trial will examine the effectiveness of a trauma-sensitive, gender-transformative youth violence prevention program that integrates racism and discrimination prevention. Set in 24 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with concentrated social and economic disadvantage, this study addresses gender and racial injustice through a series of group discussions, bringing together adolescents ages 14-19 with law enforcement officers in a process of social restoration.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 1800
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: June 30, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 14 Years to 19 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants must be ages 14-19 (inclusive)
• Participants must speak English

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not ages 14-19 (inclusive)
• Do not speak English

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescent Behavior
• Communication, Personal
• Coping Skills
• Emotional Abuse
• Group, Peer
• Violence, Domestic
• Violence, Non-accidental
• Violence, Sexual

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Creating Peace
Creating Peace is a 12 session curriculum designed to support youth ages 14-19 in healing from experiences of trauma by restoring social connections, strengthening positive coping strategies that exclude all forms of violence, challenging gender norms that foster violence perpetration, and practicing positive bystander intervention skills to intervene safely with peers' disrespectful and harmful behaviors. Through 12 sessions (3 hours/session) over a 4 to 12 week period, Creating Peace offers gender transformative content combined with youth leadership development. Near program conclusion, youth will offer guidance to law enforcement on interacting with youth in a process of social restoration.
• Job Readiness
Job Readiness Training uses a group discussion format to learn specific skills to prepare for employment including developing goals, seeking jobs, preparing for interviews, and so forth.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Pittsburgh	National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in recent use of any violence at 3 months	Summary score of any recent use of violence (physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; sexual violence; physical violence and threatening with a weapon; cyber dating abuse, cyber peer abuse, and sexting) calculated as one point for each behavior then summed (lower score indicates better outcome)	At baseline and three months after program conclusion
Primary	Change in recent use of any violence at 9 months	Summary score of any recent use of violence (physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; sexual violence; physical violence and threatening with a weapon; cyber dating abuse, cyber peer abuse, and sexting) calculated as one point for each behavior then summed (lower score indicates better outcome)	At baseline and nine months after program.
Secondary	Change in past 30 day weapon carrying at 3 months	Self-reported number of days they carried a weapon in past 30 days	At baseline and three months after program conclusion
Secondary	Change in past 30 day weapon carrying at 9 months	Self-reported number of days they carried a weapon in past 30 days	At baseline and nine months after program conclusion
Secondary	Change in positive bystander behaviors at 3 months	Past 3 month positive bystander behavior when witnessing disrespectful and harmful behavior among peers comparing baseline and follow up summary scores. Participants report if they have witnessed peers' abusive behaviors in the past 3 months and if witnessed, how they responded (whether they intervened to interrupt the behavior, provided support to person being harmed).	At baseline and three months after program conclusion
Secondary	Change in positive bystander behaviors at 9 months	Past 3 month positive bystander behavior when witnessing disrespectful and harmful behavior among peers comparing baseline and follow up summary scores. Participants report if they have witnessed peers' abusive behaviors in the past 3 months and if witnessed, how they responded (whether they intervened to interrupt the behavior, provided support to person being harmed).	At baseline and nine months after program conclusion