Future Leaders Program: Testing a Youth Leadership, Engagement, and Mindfulness Program
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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: Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness, EnvisionIT.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Adolescent Behavior Problem, Mental Health Wellness 1. Basic parameters: from 14 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
Can A Youth Leadership and Mindfulness Program Support Well-being in Adolescence?
Overview
The current study tests the feasibility and effectiveness of a youth intervention designed to provide meaningful leadership opportunities through the acquisition of leadership skills as well as mindfulness practice, LEAP: Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness. The goal of this project is to determine whether the Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness (LEAP) curriculum, which was developed with youth, is a feasible and effective intervention for fostering leadership and well-being. The investigators seek to understand whether LEAP can support wellbeing for youth as a strategy to increase youth mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) health.
Detailed description
The LEAP study will determine whether a 14-session program designed to provide leadership and mindfulness skills to youth is an effective and feasible intervention. The curriculum consists of 14 two-hour sessions delivered after school. The comparison group will take part in EnvisionIT, a college and career readiness program designed for students in grades 6 through 12. EnvisionIT aims to prepare students with essential skills including digital literacy, and college and career readiness. The comparison group will also have 14 two-hour group sessions. Both LEAP and EnvisionIT will be delivered by trained facilitators. All participants in LEAP and EnvisionIT will be assessed at four time points; facilitators will also complete interviews post-intervention and provide feedback on data fidelity and acceptability following each session. This record reports on the UH3 phase of the grant.
Interventions
- Behavioral Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness
The Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness intervention (LEAP) was designed and co-created with youth to improve youth well-being by enhancing leadership opportunities and by developing mindfulness in day-to-day life. LEAP seeks to foster these improvements in youth and to increase youth mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Youth voice is incorporated into the intervention, with facilitators leading the first 7 sessions, and youth leading the remainder. - Behavioral EnvisionIT
Participants in this arm will receive 14 sessions of EnvisionIT training, focused on preparing students with essential skills including digital literacy through competency in information technology, financial literacy, English language arts skills, and college and career readiness. All sessions will be delivered by facilitators trained in EnvisionIT.
Primary outcome measures
- Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness (EPOCH; Kern et al., 2016) measure of adolescent wellbeing [Time frame: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months]
- Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 2001) [Time frame: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months]
- Self-Rated Health 12-item Short-Form Survey (SF-12; Ware et al., 1996) [Time frame: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Student Career Construction Inventory (Savickas, 2018) [Time frame: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months]
- Vocational Skills Self-Efficacy (VSSE; McWhirter et al., 2000) [Time frame: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Adolescents ages 14 and older in grades 9-12 during the Fall/Winter or in grades 9-11 during the Spring
- Enrolled in a partner site in Massachusetts or Illinois
- Adolescents are only included with parent consent and youth assent if they are under the age of 18. Adolescents at least 18 years old can provide consent.
Exclusion criteria
- They participated in the pilot phase (UG3)
- They cannot commit to participation in the full study (e.g., attendance at all intervention sessions)
- They are not in grades 9-12 at a partner site
- Parent/guardian has a preferred consent language other than English or Spanish.
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
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 3 centers
- University of Illinois, Chicago — Chicago
- METCO — Boston
- Boston University — Boston
Publications
- Alegria M, Alvarez K, NeMoyer A, Zhen-Duan J, Marsico C, O'Malley IS, Mukthineni R, Porteny T, Herrera CN, Najarro Cermeno J, Kingston K, Sisay E, Trickett E. Development of a Youth Civic Engagement Program: Process and Pilot Testing with a Youth-Partnered Research Team. Am J Community Psychol. 2022 Mar;69(1-2):86-99. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12548. Epub 2021 Aug 4. PMID 34350588
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06736522 · 7018E · 4UH3AT012530