The R-CITY Project: A Collaborative Intervention With Teachers and Youth

Violence Clinical Trial

— R-CITY  

Official title:

R-CITY: A Collaborative Intervention With Teachers and Youth

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05585918
• Other study ID #: SBS2232
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 15, 2021
• Est. completion date: July 2025

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: University of Virginia
• Contact: Catherine P Bradshaw, Ph.D.
• Phone: 434-924-8121
• Email: cpb8g[@]virginia.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

"R-CITY" refers to the Collaborative Intervention with Teachers and Youth to practice and apply the 4 "Rs" of equity literacy skills in the classroom - Recognizing, Responding, Restoring Relationships, and Resilience. R-CITY is a collaborative teacher- and youth-focused prevention intervention that offers equity literacy lessons to accompany the Second Step social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum. The lessons are designed to build teachers' and students' "equity stamina" and promote SEL skills to create safe and positive learning environments for all.

The R-CITY Project uses a school-level randomized controlled trial (RCT) design to test the integration of the Second Step universal classroom-based evidence-based SEL program that Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS) had been scaling up district wide with the R-CITY equity lessons. The purpose of the RCT is to determine the "value-added" of the SEL + Equity Condition, compared to the SEL curriculum alone (SEL Only) in AACPS elementary and middle schools. Students in both conditions get access the Second Step SEL content, there is no true control condition, but rather an active comparison condition.

Description:

The study aims to test the R-CITY intervention in 30 elementary and middle schools in AACPS in Maryland. The investigator team plans to enroll the schools across 3 cohorts. The first cohort of schools included 8 elementary schools (2021-2022). Seven to 8 elementary and middle schools are in the process of being recruited for cohort 2 (2022-2023). The third and final cohort will be recruited in fall 2023.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 320
• Est. completion date: July 2025
• Est. primary completion date: July 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• General education teachers of core subjects (Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, English/Language Arts).

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Violence

Intervention

Behavioral:
• SEL + Equity
For the SEL + Equity (experimental) condition schools, activities include those in the SEL Only condition, as well as equity lessons designed by the project team, as well as training and individualized support for implementing classroom equity lessons, five 45-minute equity professional development sessions, and one-on-one coaching to support equitable practices and the implementation of the 6 classroom equity lessons.
• SEL Only
For the SEL Only (active comparator) condition schools, activities involve school-wide technical assistance and implementation support for SEL curriculum implementation, as well as individualized technical assistance for the SEL curriculum. In the year following participation, SEL Only condition schools are offered access to and training and technical support for the classroom equity lessons.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Shepard Pratt Health System	Towson	Maryland

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Virginia	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), Sheppard Pratt Health System

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	ASSIST Classroom Observations	The ASSIST is a direct observational measure that assesses the classroom interactions between students and teachers. Observation cycles are 15 minutes and scales include tallied counts of teacher and student behaviors, as well as global ratings of interactions based on a Likert-style scale.	Post-intervention, within one month following the completion of the intervention.
Secondary	R-CITY Teacher Self-Report Survey	This survey assesses teachers' cultural competence and self-efficacy. Each item on this scale was scored on a 6-point Likert-type scale where 1 is strongly disagree and 6 is strongly agree.	Post-intervention, within one month following the completion of the intervention.
Secondary	Suspensions	School-level student suspensions (publicly reported and accessible).	Post-intervention, within one month following the completion of the intervention.