Evaluation of Violence Prevention Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Community Levels of Youth Violence

Part of paid clinical trials in Richmond, Virginia.

Sponsor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Study ID
NCT06176300
Status
Enrolling By Invitation

Conditions

  • Adolescent Behavior
  • Exposure to Violent Event
  • Violence

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
12 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • PAR - the SEED Method — BEHAVIORAL
    The SEED Method is an evidence-based Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach that engages youth and adult stakeholders in collective decision-making and action in supporting PYD opportunities in their communities.
  • PAR-Youth Voices — BEHAVIORAL
    Youth Voices is a developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive PAR approach designed for African American adolescents. The curriculum relies on frameworks including sociopolitical development (e.g., civic engagement and social justice), racial socialization, and racial identity development. Youth Voices will be implemented in high schools serving the intervention communities.
  • Emerging Leaders hospital-based intervention — BEHAVIORAL
    Emerging Leaders is a violence prevention strategy that provides evidence-based intervention and resources for high-risk youth and their families in the youth's home and community. Emerging Leaders consists of four core components to prevent violence: (1) brief hospital-based violence intervention, (2) 3-months of community case management, (3) an in-home firearm safety counseling program, and (4) an 8-week youth positive development workshop series.

Study Details

The goal of this research study is to implement and evaluate a comprehensive community-level approach, Healthy Communities for Youth, that includes both a selective hospital-based prevention strategy, Emerging Leaders, and universal prevention strategies that increase Positive Youth Development opportunities through participatory action research, stakeholder education, community mobilization, and an overall focus on increasing community capacity for prevention. Key project aims are to evaluate the impact of Healthy Communities for Youth on community rates of youth violence using surveillance data and evaluate the impact of each violence prevention strategy on proximal outcomes including their impact on risk factors and protective processes related to multiple forms of youth violence.

Key Dates

Start date
Feb 16, 2022
Status verified
Apr 2026
Primary completion
May 30, 2026
Completion
May 30, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
3,390 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SEQUENTIAL
Primary purpose
OTHER

Arms

  • Experimental: Community A
  • Experimental: Community B
  • No Intervention: Community C

Primary Outcome Measure

Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ) [ Time Frame: Baseline and 6 months after baseline ]

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmondVirginia23298-

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