CSTOP Now! Child Sex Trafficking Stops With You

NCT05722769 | Recruiting

• 2 other identifiers: 77232U01CE003394
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 5,408
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Focus: Intervention \& prevention of child commercial sexual exploitation or trafficking (CST) In Kentucky, familial SU/D increases risk of CST. Primary goal: Implement and evaluate effectiveness of multi-level bystander-informed program (CSTOP Now!) aimed at Kentucky public middle schools for staff.

Conditions

Child Sex Trafficking

Keywords

Prevention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Knowledge and Attitudes toward Child Sex Trafficking (CST) among middle school staff

  Knowledge of CST to include legal and behavioral definitions, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and awareness CST in staff's school or community Attitudes toward CST include stereotypes of those trafficked, their families and consumers, staff's empathy and attitudes toward helping those trafficked, self-efficacy to address CST with students or staff. Sex Trafficking Attitudes Scale, Human Trafficking Myths Scale, Adaptation of Self-Confidence and Screening Behaviors for Domestic Violence Scale

  Year 2-Year 4

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Use of bystander actions and See It To Stop It Indicator (SITSII) screening tool

  Year 2-Year 4

Study Arms (2)

CSTOP Now! Child Sex Trafficking Stops with You

EXPERIMENTAL

For this RCT, our research team has created CSTOP Now! online, interactive learning management system training. This CSTOP Now! online training will be offer to middle school staff in Kentucky counties randomized to this experimental intervention arm. This training seeks to provide middle school staff with information and resources to identify, intervene in, and prevent child sex trafficking (CST). This training will provide middle school staff with the knowledge, skills, and efficacy to intervene with children at risk of or experiencing CST. This training will also provide staff with skills to disrupt harmful attitudes or misinformation about CST.

Behavioral: CSTOP Now!

Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky Online Training

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

With input from Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, our team developed training delivered via LMS and designed to identify child sex trafficking among middle school students. Only for middle school staff in counties randomized to the active comparator, we offer this online training using the same approach as that for staff in the intervention condition.

Behavioral: Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky Online Training

Interventions

CSTOP Now! BEHAVIORAL

Child sex trafficking stops with you. Implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-level bystander-informed program (CSTOP Now!) aimed at Kentucky public middle school staff. Participants will be trained to use the See It To Stop It Indicator Tool (SITSII) by using tiers of concern (clear concern, possible concern, and monitor of emerging concern). The SITSII tool directs the bystander actions to Decide, Directly Intervene, Disrupt, Delegate, and Document.

CSTOP Now! Child Sex Trafficking Stops with You

Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky Online Training BEHAVIORAL

The Kentucky State Police, in association with Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, have developed videos we invite active comparator schools to review which also include how to identify and report child sex trafficking.

Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky Online Training

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 21 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Kentucky middle school staff in a public school
• Kentucky middle school staff in the intervention or attention control schools/counties.

You may not qualify if:

• Kentucky middle school staff not in intervention or attention control schools/counties.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ann Coker: lead
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky, 40536-0293, United States

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• Ann L. Coker, PhD, MPH

  University of Kentucky

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Ann Coker, PhD, MPH

CONTACT

859-323-0429; ann.coker@uky.edu

Emily Clear, MPH

CONTACT

859-218-0029; emily.clear@uky.edu

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Masking Details: County-level
• Purpose: SCREENING
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Model Details: Randomization at Kentucky County level. Schools in counties randomized to the intervention receive the online intervention training. Schools in counties randomized to the attention control receive the attention control training.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 10, 2023
• First Posted: February 10, 2023
• Study Start: September 19, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): September 29, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2026
• Last Updated: October 7, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)