Using Media to Shift Social Norms of Violence Among Youth

Violence Clinical Trial

Official title:

Changing the Narrative: Using Media to Shift Social Norms of Violence Among Youth in West Louisville

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02706145
• Other study ID #: 15.0910
• Secondary ID: 1U01CE002711
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2016
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: November 2022
• Source: University of Louisville
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The project will utilize a quasi-experimental design to examine the effectiveness of a community-level, three-year social norming campaign aimed at changing norms of violence among youth 10-24, with West Louisville (WL) as the intervention community and East Nashville, Tennessee as the control community. The project will address the following research questions (RQs):

RQ1: To what extent is a social norming campaign effective in changing the descriptive and injunctive norms of violence among youth in WL?

RQ2: To what extent are the descriptive and injunctive norms of violence among youth in WL related to violent behavior (by type)?

RQ3: To what extent is a social norming campaign effective in reducing population rates of youth violence in WL?

RQ4: Which forms of media are most effective in reaching youth of different ages with campaign messages?

RQ5: How is community readiness related to implementation of a community-level social norming campaign?

RQ6: How is community capacity related to implementation of a community-level social norming campaign?

RQ7: How does community capacity to address youth violence change over time with the implementation of a community-level social norming campaign?

RQ8: To what extent is a social norming campaign cost-effective in reducing incidents of serious violence among youth?

Description:

The Center of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention at the University of Louisville (UofL) School of Public Health & Information Sciences capitalizes on a specific window of opportunity-where there is currently alignment of a public consciousness of the issue of youth violence, the availability of expertise to implement a feasible intervention, and substantial political will across community sectors to address the issue. This provides an ideal context for the creation of the UofL Center for Youth Violence Prevention, allowing us to partner with residents and organizations in West Louisville (WL) to develop, implement, and evaluate a community-level intervention to reduce youth violence. To this end, we plan to achieve five specific aims:

AIM 1: Strengthen the infrastructure to support youth violence prevention research and practice at the University of Louisville.

AIM 2: Develop, implement and evaluate a community-level social norming campaign to change the norms of violence among youth in West Louisville using mass and social media.

AIM 3: Document the development and implementation of the social norming campaign to improve replication and scalability in other settings or communities.

AIM 4: Evaluate the relationship between community readiness, community capacity, and the implementation of the community-level social norming campaign.

AIM 5: Facilitate knowledge translation and dissemination initiatives to relevant audiences (i.e., community, local organizations and leaders, youth violence prevention researchers and practitioners, academic peers, and policy-makers) that produce actionable community- and policy-level approaches.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 8037
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 10 Years to 24 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• youth between 10 and 24 years of age who reside in one of the nine neighborhoods of West Louisville or in the comparison site of East Nashville

Exclusion Criteria:

• individuals outside the age range (i.e., younger than 10 or older than 24) or who do not live in the intervention or comparison communities

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Violence

Intervention

Other:
• Social norming campaign
community-level, three-year social norming campaign, using traditional and emerging media, aimed at changing norms of violence among youth 10-24

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Louisville School of Public Health & Information Sciences	Louisville	Kentucky
United States	Vanderbilt University	Nashville	Tennessee

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Louisville	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vanderbilt University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (5)

Castle B, Wendel M, Kelly Pryor BN, Ingram M. Assessing Community Leadership: Understanding Community Capacity for Health Improvement. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2017 Jul/Aug;23 Suppl 4 Suppl, Community Health Status Assessment:S47-S52. doi: 10.1097/PHH — View Citation

Castle B, Wendel M, Kerr J, Brooms D, Rollins A. Public Health's Approach to Systemic Racism: a Systematic Literature Review. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2019 Feb;6(1):27-36. doi: 10.1007/s40615-018-0494-x. Epub 2018 May 4. — View Citation

Golden TL, Wendel ML. Public Health's Next Step in Advancing Equity: Re-evaluating Epistemological Assumptions to Move Social Determinants From Theory to Practice. Front Public Health. 2020 May 7;8:131. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00131. eCollection 2020. — View Citation

Wendel ML, Jones G Jr. Equity for Whom? The Example of Qualified Opportunity Zones. Am J Public Health. 2020 Mar;110(3):280-281. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305532. — View Citation

Wendel ML. Commentary: Racism is a Public Health Emergency. Fam Community Health. 2020 Oct/Dec;43(4):255-256. doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000281. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Proportion of youth who report descriptive norms that promote violence as measured by our school survey	Survey will assess population level changes in descriptive norms among youth in the intervention group related to violence compared to control group	up to 60 months
Primary	Proportion of youth who report injunctive norms that promote violence as measured by our school survey	Survey will assess population level changes in injunctive norms among youth in the intervention group related to violence compared to youth in the control group	up to 60 months
Primary	Proportion of youth who engaged in violent behavior in the past 12 months as measured by our school survey	Youth engagement in violent behavior (by type of violence)	up to 60 months
Primary	Community rates of violence involving youth 10-24 aggregated by police department, emergency department, and school district records	Community-level rates of youth violence (by type of violence)	up to 60 months

External Links

•   Campaign Website