Safe, Healthy, Adolescent Relationships and Peers

NCT02420548 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: 10312013.0401P50DA035763
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 122
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The Safe, Healthy, Adolescent Relationships and Peers study seeks to understand some of the factors that contribute to the behaviors and health of teen girls, such as girl's friendships, their dating behaviors, their risk-taking behaviors, and their knowledge about how to make healthy choices. This study will inform us on ways to help teen girls engage in safe and healthy relationships and adjustment.

Conditions

Juvenile Delinquency Unspecified; Risk Behavior; Adolescent Behavior; Sexual Behavior; Drug Use

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Delinquency measured by official arrest records and standardized questionnaires

  Reduction in delinquent behaviors for teens participating in the intervention arm measured by official arrest records and standardized questionnaires, including the Youth Symptom inventory, the Elliott Self-report Delinquency Scale, the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment, and the Parent Daily Report.

  Up to 12 months

• Sexual Risk Behavior

  Reduction in high risk sexual behaviors for teens participating in the intervention arm measured by standardized questionnaires, including Partner and Peer Behavior, Conflict in Adolescent Dating, Sexual Health Scale, and the Parent Daily Report.

  Up to 12 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Parenting measured by change in parenting practices for parents participating in the intervention arm measured by standardized questionnaires

  Up to 12 months

• Substance Use

  Up to 12 months

Study Arms (2)

Services as Usual

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants continue with any services they may be receiving outside of the study.

Behavioral: Services as Usual

Parent Ed. and Youth Skills Coaching

EXPERIMENTAL

The experimental intervention will have two components: (1) a caregiver parenting group, including all caregiver types (biological, foster, kinship), that meets weekly for 90-minutes for four months, focused on increasing parenting skills, and (2) a Life Coach component where trained and supported skills coaches meet individually with youth weekly for 60 minutes over the same four-month period to build the girls' social skills and peer/partner relationships skills.

Behavioral: Parent Ed. and Youth Skills Coaching; Behavioral: Services as Usual

Interventions

Parent Ed. and Youth Skills Coaching BEHAVIORAL

The experimental intervention will have two components: (1) a caregiver parenting group, including all caregiver types (biological, foster, kinship), that meets weekly for 90-minutes for four months, focused on increasing parenting skills, and (2) a Life Coach component where trained and supported skills coaches meet individually with youth weekly for 60 minutes over the same four-month period to build the girls' social skills and peer/partner relationships skills.

Parent Ed. and Youth Skills Coaching

Services as Usual BEHAVIORAL

Services as usual as provided by community service organizations from which the sample was drawn.

Parent Ed. and Youth Skills Coaching; Services as Usual

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 13 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• reside in Lane County and within 70 miles of the University of Oregon
• have a current caregiver
• both girl and caregiver are fluent in English

You may not qualify if:

• are medically fragile
• have a significant developmental disability
• have graduated from high school or have a General Educational Diploma (GED)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Oregon: lead
• Oregon Social Learning Center: collaborator
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon, 97403, United States

Location

Related Publications (4)

• Horn SR, Leve LD, Levitt P, Fisher PA. Childhood adversity, mental health, and oxidative stress: A pilot study. PLoS One. 2019 Apr 26;14(4):e0215085. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215085. eCollection 2019.

  PMID: 31026258 RESULT

• Clark M, Buchanan R, Kovensky R, Leve LD. Partner influences on young women's risky drug and sexual behavior. Reprod Health. 2018 Sep 15;15(1):156. doi: 10.1186/s12978-018-0598-0.

  PMID: 30219076 RESULT

• Clark M, Buchanan R, Leve LD. Young Women's Perspectives of Their Adolescent Treatment Programs: A Qualitative Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Feb 22;15(2):373. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15020373.

  PMID: 29470424 RESULT

• Kovensky R, Anderson D, Leve LD. Early Adversity and Sexual Risk in Adolescence: Externalizing Behaviors as a Mediator. J Child Adolesc Trauma. 2019 Aug 7;13(2):173-184. doi: 10.1007/s40653-019-00278-w. eCollection 2020 Jun.

  PMID: 32549929 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Risk-Taking; Adolescent Behavior; Sexual Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Leslie Leve, PhD

  University of Oregon

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Patti Chamberlain, PhD

  Oregon Social Learning Center

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Rohanna Buchanan, PhD

  Oregon Social Learning Center

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 14, 2015
• First Posted: April 20, 2015
• Study Start: July 1, 2014
• Primary Completion: August 31, 2019
• Study Completion: December 31, 2022
• Last Updated: May 11, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF, ANALYTIC CODE
• Time Frame: December 2021. No specific end date
• Access Criteria: Email: leve@uoregon.edu

Locations

US (1)