School Violence Exposure as an Adverse Childhood Experience

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Sponsor
Teachers College, Columbia University
Study ID
NCT06153316
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • Educational Outcomes
  • Mental Health Outcomes
  • Perceived School Safety

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
11 Years - 65 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • School shooting incident — OTHER
    The school has experienced a gun shooting incident within the past 2 years of the study (for 3 case schools) and prior to 2 years (for 3 case schools). Incidents where a gun was displayed but no shot was fired, or where a shot was fired by police or security officer will not be included.

Study Details

This study hypothesize that school safety strategies may contribute to poor mental health and distress among various school populations and proposes the following research questions to be answered through this study: 1. Is there a significant difference in the prevalence of mental health outcomes, perceived school safety, and academic engagement between early adolescent and adolescent students (grades 6 - 12) at schools that have experienced a school shooting and those that have not? 2. Are existing interventions to promote school safety and security associated with poor mental health outcomes among students and school staff? 3. Does the strength of this association between school safety interventions and mental health outcomes differ among students and teachers in those schools who have experienced a school shooting versus among students and teachers in those schools who never experienced a school shooting? And, among our sample of students, are these associations moderated by their ACE history? Participants will be asked to self-report data on their mental health and wellness, and perceived school safety through a survey. Researchers will compare the surveys from the participants from exposure schools (those who experienced a gun shooting incident) with surveys from the participants from non-exposure schools (those who have not experienced a gun shooting incident)

Key Dates

Start date
Apr 26, 2024
Status verified
Nov 2024
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2025
Completion
Dec 31, 2025

Study Design

Enrollment
2,500 participants (estimated)

Arms

  • Arm: Exposure Schools
    From the dataset that matches study criteria, randomly select three K-12 schools that have recently experienced mass violence or attempted mass violence (\< two years prior) and three K-12 schools that have experienced mass violence or attempted mass violence less recently (\> two years ago). Students, teachers and principals of these schools will be eligible to participate.
  • Arm: Non-exposure schools
    For the study, the non-exposure schools will be matched to exposure schools on five key variables: state, urban/non-urban, school type (public/private), school level (elementary/middle/high), and school size, and selected from the complete database of K-12 schools across the United states. Students, teachers and principals of these schools will be eligible to participate.

Primary Outcome Measure

Mental Health of students [ Time Frame: through survey completion, an average of 6 months ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Teachers College, Columbia UniversityNew YorkNew York10027
Sonali Rajan
[email protected]
212-678-3458

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