Future Leaders Program: Testing a Youth Leadership, Engagement, and Mindfulness Program

Официальное название

Can A Youth Leadership and Mindfulness Program Support Well-being in Adolescence?

Обзор

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.

Подробное описание

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.

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое 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.
• Поведенческое 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.

Первичные конечные точки

• Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness (EPOCH; Kern et al., 2016) measure of adolescent wellbeing [Срок оценки: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months]
• Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 2001) [Срок оценки: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months]
• Self-Rated Health 12-item Short-Form Survey (SF-12; Ware et al., 1996) [Срок оценки: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months]

Вторичные конечные точки (2)

• Student Career Construction Inventory (Savickas, 2018) [Срок оценки: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months]
• Vocational Skills Self-Efficacy (VSSE; McWhirter et al., 2000) [Срок оценки: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• 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.

Критерии исключения

• 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.

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Да

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Рандомизированное

Модель

Параллельные группы

Маскирование

Простое слепое

Основная цель

Профилактика

Центры проведения

США · 3 центра

• University of Illinois, Chicago — Chicago
• METCO — Boston
• Boston University — Boston

Публикации

• 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

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT06736522 · 7018E · 4UH3AT012530

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

Открыть это исследование на ClinicalTrials.gov ↗