Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention (CRCEI), Health Education Sessions.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Violence, Physical, Violence, Non-accidental, Violence, Sexual, Violence, Domestic. Basic parameters: from 13 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention (CRCEI) for Prevention of Community Violence - A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Overview
This study will evaluate, via a cluster-randomized controlled trial, the effectiveness of a community-centered intervention that promotes thriving and resiliency to reduce community violence.
Detailed description
This study will evaluate, via a cluster-randomized controlled trial, the effectiveness of an innovative community-centered intervention that promotes thriving and resiliency to reduce community violence. In collaboration with community partners, this study will implement a Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention (CRCEI) to engage community members in dialogue on neighborhood transformation, racial and gender equity, community leadership, and organizing for social change. Facilitating discussion and community organizing within neighborhoods about child and youth thriving is expected to increase individual and neighborhood levels of collective efficacy and reduce community violence. Using a community-partnered participatory approach, this study will use a Community Thriving Matrix tool to engage youth and adult community members in ongoing dialogue on neighborhood transformation, community leadership, and organizing for social change. This focus on envisioning and creating neighborhoods in which children and adolescents can thrive is expected to translate to increased individual and neighborhood levels of collective efficacy as well as violence reduction. Comparison neighborhoods will receive health education sessions as a control intervention. The proposed study involves diverse neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh region and collecting survey data from youth (ages 13-19 years) and adult community participants (both male and female identified). Interviews with a sub-sample of community residents and facilitators and community site leads as well as observations of intervention delivery will provide qualitative information on processes of program implementation. This study will provide the first rigorous evaluation of this community-level prevention approach.
Interventions
- Behavioral Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention (CRCEI)
The Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention (CRCEI) will involve community members in dialogue on thriving, community leadership, and organizing for social change. Participants in the intervention condition will be asked to participate in 2 sessions of discussions about community thriving and a 7-week training program on the following topics: Building on the Strengths of Your Community, Collective Efficacy and its Effects on Violence Prevention \& Community Mental Health, Non-threa - Behavioral Health Education Sessions
Comparison neighborhoods will receive health education sessions across a variety of community-identified health topics as a control intervention. (9 sessions)
Primary outcome measures
- Change from baseline in perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy and community cohesion [Time frame: Change from baseline to approximately 12 months after baseline]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- Community incidence of violence in 12 month period [Time frame: Change from 1 year period before baseline to approximately 12 months after baseline]
- Community incidence of violence in 12 month period [Time frame: Change from 1 year period before baseline to approximately 2 years after baseline]
- Change from baseline in collective efficacy and neighborhood social norms [Time frame: Change from baseline to approximately 12 months after baseline]
- Number of self-reported events of violence exposure [Time frame: Change from baseline to approximately 12 months after baseline]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- youth age 13 years old and up (all genders)
- adults 18 years and older (all genders)
- reside in neighborhoods selected to participate in the study
Exclusion criteria
- individuals younger than 13 years old
- individuals residing outside of participating neighborhoods
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05768217 · STUDY22100193 · U01CE003524-01