Study protocol of a randomised trial of Summer STRIPES: a peer-delivered high school preparatory intervention for students with ADHD

Courtney A Zulauf-McCurdy, Stefany J Coxe, Aaron R Lyon, Ben Aaronson, Mercedes Ortiz, Margaret H Sibley, Courtney A Zulauf-McCurdy, Stefany J Coxe, Aaron R Lyon, Ben Aaronson, Mercedes Ortiz, Margaret H Sibley

Abstract

Introduction: High schoolers with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience substantial impairments, particularly in the school setting. However, very few high school students with ADHD receive evidence-based interventions for their difficulties. We aim to improve access to care by adapting evidence-based psychosocial intervention components to a low-resource and novel school-based intervention model, Summer STRIPES (Students Taking Responsibility and Initiative through Peer Enhanced Support). Summer STRIPES is a brief peer-delivered summer orientation to high school with continued peer-delivered sessions during ninth grade.

Methods and analysis: Participants will be 72 rising ninth grade students with ADHD who are randomised to receive either Summer STRIPES or school services as usual. Summer STRIPES will be delivered by 12 peer interventionists in a school setting. Outcomes will be measured at baseline, start of ninth grade, mid-ninth grade and end-of-ninth grade. At each assessment, self, parent and teacher measures will be obtained. We will test the effect of Summer STRIPES (compared with school services as usual) on ADHD symptoms and key mechanisms (intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, executive functions) as well as key academic outcomes during the ninth-grade year (Grade Point Average (GPA), class attendance).

Ethics and dissemination: Findings will contribute to our understanding of how to improve access and utilisation of care for adolescents with ADHD. The protocol is approved by the institutional review board at Seattle Children's Research Institute. The study results will be disseminated through publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at scientific conferences.

Trials registration number: NCT04571320; pre-results.

Keywords: child & adolescent psychiatry; psychiatry; public health.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

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Theory of change model. ADHD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; EF, executive functioning; OTP, organisation, time management and planning; STP-A, Summer Treatment Program-Adolescent; STRIPES, Students Taking Responsibility and Initiative through Peer Enhanced Support.

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