Can A Youth Leadership and Mindfulness Program Support Well-being in Adolescence?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 49
- 试验地点
- 4
- 主要终点
- Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
The current study tests the feasibility and effectiveness of a youth intervention designed to provide meaningful leadership opportunities through the acquisition of leadership skills as well as mindfulness practice, LEAP: Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness.
The goal of our proposal is to determine whether the Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness (LEAP) curriculum, which was developed with youth, is a feasible and effective intervention for fostering leadership and well-being. We seek to understand whether LEAP can support well-being for youth as a strategy to increase youth mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) health.
详细描述
The LEAP study will determine whether a 14-session program designed to provide leadership and mindfulness skills to youth is an effective and feasible intervention. The curriculum consists of 14 two-hour sessions delivered after school. The comparison group will take part in EnvisionIT, a college and career readiness program designed for students in grades 6 through 12. EnvisionIT aims to prepare students with essential skills including digital literacy, and college and career readiness. The comparison group will also have 14 two-hour group sessions. Both LEAP and EnvisionIT will be delivered by trained facilitators. All participants in LEAP and EnvisionIT will be assessed at two time points assessing program outcomes; facilitators will also complete interviews post-intervention and provide feedback on data fidelity and acceptability following each session. This record reports on the UG3 pilot phase and will be amended for a UH3 phase.
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
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
Outcomes assessors will be masked to study condition.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Adolescents ages 14-18 in grades 9-12 enrolled in collaborating sites, either in Massachusetts or Illinois.
排除标准
- •Adolescents who are not available to commit to the intervention schedule.
- •Adolescents who are not in grades 9-
- •Parents/guardians with preferred language other than English or Spanish.
结局指标
主要结局
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
时间窗: Baseline, 2-3 months
25 item multiple choice questionnaire that measures internalizing and externalizing problems and prosocial behavior (emotional, conduct, hyperactivity-inattention, peer, prosocial). The scale range is 0-40, higher scores indicate worse difficulties.
Student Career Construction Inventory
时间窗: Baseline, 2-3 months
An 18 item, 4-point scale measuring ability to crystallize vocational self-concepts, explore information gathering about occupations, and preparing to implement that choice. The scale range is 1-5, higher scores indicate better career outcomes.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Literacy Pretest-Posttest
时间窗: Baseline, 2-3 months
A 35 item multiple choice questionnaire that measures understanding of tools/mechanics of the internet, research processes, and application to career research. The scale range is 0-29, higher scores indicate better ICT literacy.
Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness (EPOCH) measure of adolescent wellbeing
时间窗: Baseline, 2-3 months
20-item, 5-point scale measuring five positive characteristics that support higher levels of wellbeing: Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness. The scale range is 1-5, higher scores indicate better wellbeing.
Self-Rated Health
时间窗: Baseline, 2-3 months
12 item 5-point survey measuring general health, asking about overall health self-rating, ability to do daily activities, energy levels, and physical and emotional limitations. The scale range is 0-100, higher scores indicate better health.
Social Emotional Health Survey: Belief in Self-Domain
时间窗: Baseline, 2-3 months
9 item, 4-point measure of core psychological assets, measuring self-efficacy, self-awareness, and persistence. The scale range is 9-36, higher scores indicate better social emotional health.
Mental Health Continuum - Short Form
时间窗: Baseline, 2-3 months
14-item, 6-point scale that measures emotional, social, and psychological wellbeing through frequency of experiencing each symptom of positive mental health. The scale range is 0-70, higher scores indicate better mental health.
Vocational Skills Self-Efficacy
时间窗: Baseline, 2-3 months
A 37 item, 5-point scale that measures vocational competency. The scale range is 1-5, higher scores indicate better vocational skills self-efficacy.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Jennifer Greif Green
Professor, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
Boston University Charles River Campus