Lived Experiences of Black Girls in Richmond

NCT05858281 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: HM20025559
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 339
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study is to understand the quality of life of Black Girls in Richmond, Virginia, which includes generating a report about the status of Black girls in Richmond. Research or reports about the state of the girls are growing more common across the country in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Most of these studies generate deficit narratives focusing on these groups' problems, needs, and deficiencies. Fewer studies focus solely on the experience of Black girls specifically. This study proposes a new approach and explores the quality of life of Black girls using an asset-based approach that thinks differently about the subject of these studies and how to address their needs appropriately.

Conditions

Lived Experiences, Strengths, and Community Assets of Black Girls

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Survey Outcome

  Exploration Subscale is a 7-item instrument about individuals' exploration of their ethnicity measured on a 4-point scale. Community Experience Subscale is measured by a 5-item Rasch-validated measure of youth interpersonal resilience measured on a 4-point scale. Gendered Racial Pride \& Empowerment Subscale is a 19-item scale that reflect the intersectional racial and gender messages young African American women receive measured on a 4-point scale. Spiritual Support Subscale is a 13-item scale that measures spiritual maturity in persons of diverse religious and spiritual beliefs measured on a 6-point scale. Safety and Perceived Safety is a 7-item scale that measures community safety perceived measured on a 5-point scale. Physical Health \& Mental Wellbeing is measured by 13 items of the 36-Item Short Form Survey measured on a 6-point scale or a 5-point scale. Sleep scale is a 5-item measure of subjective sleep quality for adolescents aged 12-18 years measured on a 6-point scale.

  3 months

• Focus group outcome

  Strengths of Black girls: summarize the themes of strengths of Black girls; Community assets: summarize the themes of community assets for Black girls

  3 months

• Interviews outcome

  Strengths of Black girls: summarize the themes of strengths of Black girls; Community assets: summarize the themes of community assets for Black girls

  3 months

Study Arms (3)

Online Survey

Behavioral: Survey

Focus group

Behavioral: Focus group

Interviews

Behavioral: Interviews

Interventions

Interviews BEHAVIORAL

Parents/guardians of Black girls (aged 12-17) and Black emerging adult women aged 18-22 will participate in individual interviews and will be asked questions about their understanding of Black girls' strengths and resources.

Interviews

Focus group BEHAVIORAL

Black adolescent girls (aged 12-17) will participate in a focus group and will be asked questions regarding their strengths, family, school and community resources, etc.

Focus group

Survey BEHAVIORAL

Black adolescent girls (aged 12-17) will participate in an online survey and will be asked questions regarding their strengths, family, school and community experiences, sexual education knowledge, physical health and mental wellbeing, etc.

Online Survey

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Years+
• Gender Eligibility Details: Black girls who participate in the focus groups and online survey must self-identify as a cisgender female; and Black emerging women who participate in the interviews must self-identity as cisgender female. Parents/guardians of Black girls who participate in the interviews can be of any gender.
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Black girls aged 12-17 who self identity as cisgender girls and who live in Richmond, VA; Black emerging adult women aged 18-22 who self identify as cisgender female and who lived in Richmond, VA when they were under 18; Parents/guardians of Black girls aged 12-17 who live in Richmond, VA

You may qualify if:

• Self-identify as Black/African American adolescent cisgender girls, between the ages of 12-17, and reside in the City of Richmond.

You may not qualify if:

• Girls who are not between 12 to 17 years of age, do not self-identify as Black, does not identify as cisgender, legal residence is not located in the city of Richmond, and/or who do not read English.
• Parents/guardians (any sex; no age range for parent/guardian) of Black girls (ages 12-17) who reside in the City of Richmond; and
• Black emerging adult women (ages 18-22) who resided in the City of Richmond when they were under 18.
• Parent/Guardian - Does not have a child (daughter) between the ages of 12-17; child does not self-identify as cisgender and Black/African American; legal residence is not in the city of Richmond; unable to read, write, or speak in English.
• Emerging adult women - does not self-identify as Black/African American, under 18 or over the age of 22, did not reside in the City of Richmond under 18, and unable to read, write, or speak in English.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Virginia Commonwealth University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia, 23284, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Surveys and Questionnaires; Interviews as Topic; Focus Groups

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Data Collection; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Health; Environment and Public Health

Study Officials

• Nakeina Douglas-Glenn, PhD

  Virginia Commonwealth University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 4, 2023
• First Posted: May 15, 2023
• Study Start: April 21, 2023
• Primary Completion: November 15, 2025
• Study Completion: November 15, 2025
• Last Updated: February 6, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)