XY-Zone Phase 1 Program Evaluation: A School-Based Dropout Prevention Program for At-Risk Male Youth
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 91
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Youth Self Report
研究概览
简要总结
The objective of this study is to build upon preliminary research and conduct a pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial on a promising culturally-grounded and gender-specific treatment program, the XY-Zone. The central hypothesis underlying this study purports that through receiving the XY-Zone treatment, adolescents will decrease their risk for dropping out of school. This hypothesis is supported by two years of preliminary data investigating the effectiveness of the XY-Zone.
To test the central hypothesis, the following specific aims will be pursued:
- Identify school dropout risk and protective factors (protective factors defined as: adult support and peer support; risk factors defined as: low school attendance, inability to achieve grade promotion, substance use, delinquency, school disconnectedness, misbehavior, disconnection from healthy peers) directly changed as a result of XY-Zone intervention.
- Determine the extent to which moderating variables (affective strength, duration in the program, family functioning, interpersonal strength, intrapersonal strength, level achieved in the program, and resiliency) effect change in outcome variables (risk and protective factors).
- Identify participants' beliefs about the impact of the mechanisms of change (respect, responsibility, relationship, role modeling, and reaching out) on outcome variables (risk and protective factors ) to enrich understanding of quantitative data.
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
- 13 Years 至 20 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Students eligible to receive the XY-Zone must display one of the following risk factors:
- •academic risks (failed classes, failed state examination text, lack of class participation, and homework incompletion)
- •attendance risks (absences and tardies)
- •behavioral risks (gang involvement, substance use, classroom conduct, social skills, self-esteem, violence, delinquent conduct, and family or emotional crisis)and
- •social service issues (difficulty with the following: college readiness, life skills, health, career/employment, housing, day care, and grief or loss).
排除标准
- •Youth who do not display any of the identified risk factors
结局指标
主要结局
Youth Self Report
时间窗: One Year
The Youth Self Report (Achenbach, 1991) is a 112-item scale designed for ages 11-18 years. Items are rated on a three-point scale from 0=never to 2=always true in the past 6 months. Eleven subscales can be calculated from the data, including: withdrawn, somatic complaints, anxious/depressed, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, delinquent behavior, aggressive behavior, self-destructive, and internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Scoring of subscales is gender specific. Test-retest reliability has been shown to be good (r=.84-.91).
School Records
时间窗: One Year
School records offer attendance, truancy, grades, grade promotion, and behavioral referral information.
Substance Use Self Report
时间窗: One Year
Self-report data on alcohol and other drug use will be collected through items adapted from the Adolescent DATOS survey, which was used with more than 3,000 adolescents (Kristiansen \& Hubbard, 2001; Hser, Grella, et al., 2001).
次要结局
- Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale- II (Youth Report)(One Year)
- Resilience Scale(One Year)
研究者
Katherine Montgomery
PhD
University of Texas at Austin