HEALTHY (Health Education Adolescent Leadership Training to Help Youth) Leaders

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stress
• Interventions: Behavioral: Mindfulness based stress reduction; Behavioral: only pre and post evaluation measures

• Registration Number: NCT01708291
• Lead Sponsor: University of Rochester

Brief Summary

This project will measure baseline stress among a group of youth in foster and kinship care. The investigators will implement a pilot program to target stress reduction by using an evidence-based group therapy technique teaching mindfulness skills. The investigators hypothesize that the mindfulness skills will help youth to reduce stress, which will be measured using psychological and physiological techniques.

Detailed Description

Not available

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2012-09-04
• Study Start: 2012-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-10-15
• Study First Posted: 2012-10-16
• Primary Completion: 2013-04
• Study Completion: 2013-04
• Results First Submitted: 2015-09-21
• Status Verified: 2015-10
• Results First Submitted QC: 2015-10-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-10-20
• Results First Posted: 2015-11-23
• Last Update Posted: 2015-11-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 45

Inclusion Criteria

• ages 14-21 years at time of intervention being offered, offered to youth in out of home care (e.g. foster and kinship care)

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Exclusion Criteria

• severe developmental delay
• non English speaking, not in age range

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Mindfulness Based Stress reduction	Mindfulness based stress reduction	attending 10 weekly sessions and comprised of an eight week mindfulness intervention program, and completing pre- and postevaluation measures on the first and last sessions
No Mindfulness based intervention	only pre and post evaluation measures	completing only re- and post-evaluation measures on the first and last sessions

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Participants Reporting Pediatric Symptoms as Assessed by the Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 (PSC-17)	Baseline and week 10	Self Administered questionnaire to assess level of stress at baseline and week 10. PSC-17 is a one page behavioral assessment tool that can be completed in \<5 minutes and can assess the sub-domains of attention, externalizing problem and internalizing problems. Attention, externalizing and Internalizing domains are each scored on a scale from 0 (best) to 10 (worst), where a score \>= 7 indicates stress.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Rochester; 🇺🇸 Rochester, New York, United States