The ProGirls Study

NCT02112201 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: DA025857
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 416
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Girls in the juvenile justice system who have high rates of delinquency, drug abuse, and trauma are particularly at risk for engaging in risky sexual behavior and for contracting HIV/AIDS or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). No effective prevention programs for girls who have this combination of behaviors is known to exist at this time. Researchers are developing, assessing, and implementing a family-centered prevention program to decrease girls' participation in the risky behaviors associated with the spread of HIV and STIs. The program also includes a group-based training and support program for parents.

Conditions

Delinquency; HIV Risk; Substance Use; Trauma Exposure

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Reduction in HIV/STIs risk behavior in delinquent girls

  Girls in the intervention condition are expected to have significantly lower rates of HIV/STI risk behaviors compared to girls in the control condition at each of the time-points post-baseline. Data will be collected through in-person interviews and questionnaires from focal participants and their parents.

  Baseline and post intervention (6 mos); 12 & 24 month follow-ups

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Reduction in criminal offending

  Baseline and post intervention (6 mos); 12 & 24 month follow-ups

Other Outcomes (1)

• Reduction in substance use

  Baseline and post intervention (6 mos); 12 & 24 month follow-ups

Study Arms (2)

Integrated intervention for parents and adolescent girls

EXPERIMENTAL

Twelve session parent education and support group; twelve session one-on-one adolescent skills training intervention

Behavioral: Integrated intervention for parents and adolescent girls

Treatment as usual

NO INTERVENTION

Treatment as usual

Interventions

Integrated intervention for parents and adolescent girls BEHAVIORAL

The intervention will consist of individually administered preventive curriculum for adolescent girls involved in the juvenile justice system that integrally addresses delinquency, drug abuse, and trauma exposure, along with group-based training and support for parents.

Integrated intervention for parents and adolescent girls

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 13 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• female, age 13-18 years
• living in Lane County, Oregon
• living at home (biological/adoptive, foster, or other relative care)
• at least one criminal referral and on probation or a formal accountability contract with the juvenile justice system
• documented drug use from juvenile justice risk assessment
• traumatic exposure
• no imminent plans to be placed in out-of-home care

You may not qualify if:

• meet criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Oregon Research Institute: lead

Study Sites (1)

Oregon Research Institute

Eugene, Oregon, 97403, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Substance-Related Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Chemically-Induced Disorders; Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Dana K Smith, PhD

  Oregon Research Institute

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 3, 2014
• First Posted: April 11, 2014
• Study Start: September 1, 2013
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2018
• Study Completion: May 1, 2020
• Last Updated: September 16, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-09

Locations

US (1)