Family Mediation Program For At-Risk Youth
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- RAND
- 入组人数
- 111
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Positive Family Relations
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this project is to conduct a pilot evaluation of a parent-child mediation program for at-risk youth. It is investigating whether families who receive parent-child mediation show greater improvement in family functioning, as well as adolescent substance use, academic performance, and delinquency, over a 6-week and 12-week period compared to a wait-list control sample.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 12 Years 至 19 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Has a child referred to FARS due to having problems in any of the following areas: (a) poor grades; (b) truancy; (c) defiant behavior; (d) running away; (e) delinquency; (f) substance use
- •Agrees to participate in at least one FARS mediation session
- •Agrees to complete 3 surveys and be available over the next 3 months for follow-up
- •Fluent in English or Spanish
排除标准
- •Families referred to FARS due to: (a) conflicts involving gang violence (e.g., shootings, killings); (b) conflicts involving weapons; (c) arson; (d) conflicts involving explicit sex activities; (e) conflicts involving domestic violence/child abuse; and (f) threats to harm self or others.
结局指标
主要结局
Positive Family Relations
时间窗: 12-week
6-item Positive Family Relations measure adapted from the Cohesion subscale of Moos \& Moos Family Environment Scale (Metzler et al., 1998; Journal of Family Psychology, 12, 600-619). Items are rated on a 5-point scale ("not at all" to "very much") and averaged to create a scale score.
Parent Support
时间窗: 12-week
4-item measure (Wills et al., 2004; Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 18, 122-134). Items are rated on a 5-point scale ("never" to "almost always") and averaged to create a scale score.
Family Conflict
时间窗: 12-week
5-item measure from the Family, Friends and Self (FFS) assessment scales (Simpson \& McBride, 1992; Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 14, 327-340). Items are rated on a 5-point scale ("never" to "almost always") and averaged to create a scale score.
Family Communication
时间窗: 12-week
10-item measure assessing open vs. problem communication (McCubbin, Thompson \& McCubbin, 1996; Family assessment: Resiliency, coping and adaptation - Inventories for research and practice. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin). Items are rated on a 5-point scale ("never" to "almost always") and averaged to create a scale score.
次要结局
- Delinquency(12-weeks)
- Lifetime and Past Month Substance Use(12-week)
- Academic Performance(12-week)