- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04474158
Creating Peace: Community-based Youth Violence Prevention to Address Racism and Discrimination
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed 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.
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Lauren Risser, MPH
- Phone Number: 412-692-8504
- Email: lauren.risser@chp.edu
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Ethan Copperman
- Phone Number: 412-692-6504
- Email: ethan.copperman2@chp.edu
Study Locations
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Pennsylvania
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
- Recruiting
- University of Pittsburgh
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Contact:
- Lauren Risser, MPH
- Phone Number: 412-692-8504
- Email: lauren.risser@chp.edu
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Contact:
- Ethan Copperman
- Phone Number: 412-692-8504
- Email: ethan.copperman2@chp.edu
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Principal Investigator:
- Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Participants must be ages 14-19 (inclusive)
- Participants must speak English
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not ages 14-19 (inclusive)
- Do not speak English
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Creating Peace
Creating Peace uses a group discussion format with activities that explore race, gender, sexual identity, and social class.
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.
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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.
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Active Comparator: Job Readiness Training
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.
Participants receive a 12 session job readiness training with linkages to businesses and employment opportunities.
Discussions include a wide range of topics related to career exploration and job readiness.
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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.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in recent use of any violence at 3 months
Time Frame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
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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)
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At baseline and three months after program conclusion
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Change in recent use of any violence at 9 months
Time Frame: At baseline and nine months after program.
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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)
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At baseline and nine months after program.
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in past 30 day weapon carrying at 3 months
Time Frame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
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Self-reported number of days they carried a weapon in past 30 days
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At baseline and three months after program conclusion
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Change in past 30 day weapon carrying at 9 months
Time Frame: At baseline and nine months after program conclusion
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Self-reported number of days they carried a weapon in past 30 days
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At baseline and nine months after program conclusion
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Change in positive bystander behaviors at 3 months
Time Frame: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
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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).
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At baseline and three months after program conclusion
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Change in positive bystander behaviors at 9 months
Time Frame: At baseline and nine months after program conclusion
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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).
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At baseline and nine months after program conclusion
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- STUDY18110082
- 5R01MD013797-02 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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