Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities
This project is an evaluation of an intervention to involve youth in creating community change for peace promotion and violence prevention. The intervention, Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities (YES), includes three components: youth empowerment activities, neighborhood organization development, and community development projects that involve youth and organizations working together.
Hypothesis 1: Efforts to engage youth in the community change process will enhance their attachment to their community, reduce their problem behaviors, and begin to change norms among their peers about community violence and interpersonal problem solving.
Hypothesis 2: Efforts to make community-based organizations more youth-friendly and engaging will assist them to be more effective in reaching their community enhancement goals and will expand youth involvement in their mission.
Hypothesis 3: Efforts to create more health-enhancing land use (e.g., beautification, community gardens, parks development) will improve social organization (e.g., social capital, social cohesion, and social support), and reduce the level of violent incidents and crime in the community.
調査の概要
詳細な説明
The program will focus on youth and neighborhood organizations in one middle-school attendance area. A nearby middle-school attendance area will serve as a comparison community. We will assess change in community norms, fear, social cohesion and social capital using an existing community survey of adults in the two neighborhoods. A similar survey will assess changes in youths' social norms, fears, perceptions of social cohesion and social capital, as well as their violent behavior and ethnic identity and pride. We will also compare the intervention and comparison neighborhoods on several community-level measures including police incident data, hospital injury reports, school suspension data, and ratings of neighborhood qualities (e.g., vacant lots, community gardens, social interaction).
The long-term goals of YES are to:
- modify environmental conditions that contribute to youth violence;
- promote social norms supportive of community participation and nonviolence;
- increase perceptions of neighborhood safety among residents; and
- reduce the incidence of youth violence perpetration and victimization.
研究の種類
入学 (実際)
段階
- フェーズ 1
連絡先と場所
研究場所
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Michigan
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Ann Arbor、Michigan、アメリカ、48109
- University of Michigan School of Public Health
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参加基準
適格基準
就学可能な年齢
健康ボランティアの受け入れ
受講資格のある性別
説明
Inclusion Criteria:
- 7th and 8th graders in the intervention middle-school attendance area
- Neighborhood organizations with at least 10 members serving the intervention middle-school attendance area
Exclusion Criteria:
- Students who have been suspended or expelled during the intervention period
- Neighborhood organizations that serve areas in both the intervention and comparison areas.
研究計画
研究はどのように設計されていますか？
デザインの詳細
- 主な目的：防止
- 割り当て：非ランダム化
- 介入モデル：単一グループの割り当て
- マスキング：なし（オープンラベル）
この研究は何を測定していますか？
主要な結果の測定
結果測定 |
時間枠 |
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Youth Violence
時間枠：6 months
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6 months
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協力者と研究者
捜査官
- 主任研究者：Marc Zimmerman, PhD、University of Michigan School of Public Health
研究記録日
主要日程の研究
研究開始
一次修了 (実際)
研究の完了 (実際)
試験登録日
最初に提出
QC基準を満たした最初の提出物
最初の投稿 (見積もり)
学習記録の更新
投稿された最後の更新 (見積もり)
QC基準を満たした最後の更新が送信されました
最終確認日
詳しくは
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