Face It Evaluation
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interventional
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1 country
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Brief Summary
This project is a pilot evaluation randomised controlled trial of Face It, a school-based intervention designed and implemented by Khulisa. Face It is specifically designed for young people at risk of offending, exploitation and school exclusion. The programme builds self-awareness and encourages pupils to reflect on the root causes and triggers of their disruptive or challenging behaviour. Khulisa believes that early intervention breaks the school to prison pipeline, which is exacerbated by exclusion, enabling young people to choose a safe and crime-free future. The intervention is delivered over 6 weeks, including an intensive 5-day programme of activities, and pre-programme and post-programme group and 1:1 sessions. Each programme is tailored to participants' needs and uses art, storytelling, 1:1 and group experiential techniques, delivered by trained dramatherapists. The randomised controlled trial will test the programme's feasibility, acceptability, evaluability, mechanisms and outcomes, to determine whether the trial should proceed to a full-scale efficacy trial through quantitative and qualitative data collection.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Sep 2023
Shorter than P25 for not_applicable
2 active sites
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
September 1, 2023
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
September 18, 2023
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
October 2, 2023
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
April 1, 2024
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
June 1, 2024
CompletedOctober 2, 2023
September 1, 2023
7 months
September 18, 2023
September 25, 2023
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Behavioural difficulties
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) - young person self-report The overall (five-subscale) SDQ score ranges from 0 to 50, with a higher score indicating abnormal behaviours. The Total Difficulties score ranges from 0 to 40. The externalising score ranges from 0 to 20 and is the sum of the conduct and hyperactivity scales. The internalising score ranges from 0 to 20 and is the sum of the emotional and peer problems scales. Higher scores indicate abnormal behaviours. While the total difficulties score is the primary outcome, we will also examine the total difficulties score when broken down into the externalising score (the sum of the conduct and hyperactivity scales), and the internalising score (the sum of the emotional and peer problems scales).
Within 1 month after the end of the intervention
Secondary Outcomes (9)
Behavioural difficulties
Within 3 months after the end of the intervention
Behavioural difficulties
Within 1 month after the end of the intervention and within 3 months after the end of the intervention
Offending
Within 1 month after the end of the intervention and within 3 months after the end of the intervention
Victimisation
Within 1 month after the end of the intervention and within 3 months after the end of the intervention
Resilience
Within 1 month after the end of the intervention and within 3 months after the end of the intervention
- +4 more secondary outcomes
Study Arms (2)
Intervention
EXPERIMENTALFace It programme, including pre-programme one-to-one and group sessions, 5-day intensive programme, and post-programme one-to-one and group sessions
Control
ACTIVE COMPARATORServices as usual
Interventions
School-based intervention delivered over 6 weeks, including an intensive 5-day programme of activities, and pre-programme and post-programme group and 1:1 sessions. Each programme is tailored to participants' needs and uses art, storytelling, 1:1 and group experiential techniques, delivered by trained dramatherapists.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Students in years 9-10
- Students who speak functional English
- Students who are willing to take part in the programme
- Students who have experienced relational or social adversity
- Students who have disengaged from education
You may not qualify if:
- Students who are permanently excluded or not in full-time mainstream education
- Students with SEND who receive 1 to 1 support
- Students with active, severe and unaddressed safeguarding or mental health risk(s)
- Students who are actively receiving mental health support
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- The Behavioural Insights Teamlead
- Youth Endowment Fundcollaborator
- Khulisacollaborator
Study Sites (2)
Harris Academy Crystal Palace
London, SE19 2JH, United Kingdom
Graveney School
London, SW17 9BU, United Kingdom
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- DOUBLE
- Who Masked
- INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
- Masking Details
- Baseline and post-treatment assessment will be conducted by researchers who are blind to treatment allocation. Young people, teachers and families are not blind to treatment allocation.
- Purpose
- PREVENTION
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Director
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
September 18, 2023
First Posted
October 2, 2023
Study Start
September 1, 2023
Primary Completion
April 1, 2024
Study Completion
June 1, 2024
Last Updated
October 2, 2023
Record last verified: 2023-09
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Shared Documents
- STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP
- Time Frame
- Data will be shared with YEF within 6 months after submission of the final report to YEF.
- Access Criteria
- Researchers who are approved by the YEF and accredited to work with ONS data.
After the project has been completed, data will be shared with YEF and stored in the YEF archives. Approved researchers may apply to access YEF data via the ONS secure research service. This will be accessed via their own project space created in ONS secure research environment by the ONS. They may apply to the DfE and MoJ to access the linked NPD-PNC data, and if successful it will be made available here to combine with the YEF evaluation data, using the PMRs. Researchers will only be able to access pseudonymised data. All results will be published in a deidentified form.