A Fighting Chance: Pilot Study of a Group Mentoring Intervention for Assault Injured Youth
Summary
This pilot study is a randomized controlled trial in which assault-injured 12-14 year old youth recruited from the emergency department (ED) are randomly assigned to standard care or "A Fighting Chance" group mentoring.
Description
The goal of this project is to adapt, implement and evaluate Take Charge! (a 1:1 mentoring intervention for assault-injured youth) for a group mentoring model.
This pilot study is a randomized controlled trial in which assault-injured 12-14 year old youth recruited from the emergency department are randomly assigned to standard care or "A Fighting Chance" group mentoring that includes a violence prevention curriculum and parent sessions. Immediately post-intervention and again at six-month follow up, youth violence-related, mental health and educational outcomes using validated measures will be assessed.
Study Design
Conditions
Violence
Intervention
Group Mentoring/Intervention
Status
Not yet recruiting
Source
Johns Hopkins University
Results (where available)
Links
- Source: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT04120441
- ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on October 11, 2019
Published on BioPortfolio: 2019-10-15T11:11:13-0400
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Controlled Before-after Studies
A study in which observations are made before and after an intervention, both in a group that receives the intervention and in a control group that does not.
Ethnic Violence
Violence or other hostile behavior arising when an ethnic group either feels itself under threat, or where it seeks to assert its superiority or dominance over other groups.
Exposure To Violence
Experience of and exposure to VIOLENCE.
Historically Controlled Study
A study that compares a group of participants receiving an intervention with a similar group from the past who did not.
Gender-based Violence
Violence based on gender that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. (From www.who.int/topics/gender_based_violence/en/)
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