U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants' READY4Life Program
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 4,800
- 试验地点
- 9
- 主要终点
- Healthy Communication Skills Score
研究概览
简要总结
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) has developed the Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life) Program. This is a 16-hour program for immigrants/refugees, ages 14 to 24. The program is designed to help young immigrants and refugees prepare for a successful life in the United States. The program is taught by USCRI program staff and is being implemented at eight sites across the U.S.: Cleveland, Ohio; Colchester, Vermont; Des Moines, Iowa; Miami, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Twin Falls, Idaho. The project also includes a rigorous evaluation component, featuring a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) design.
详细描述
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) has developed the Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life) Program. This is a 16-hour program for immigrants/refugees, ages 14 to 24. The program is designed to help young immigrants and refugees prepare for a successful life in the United States. The program is taught by USCRI program staff and is being implemented at eight sites across the U.S.: Cleveland, Ohio; Colchester, Vermont; Des Moines, Iowa; Miami, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Twin Falls, Idaho. The project also includes a rigorous evaluation component, featuring a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) design.
Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life) will strengthen and promote healthy marriages among young refugees and immigrants through education and comprehensive case management that will support an overall goal of helping youth build healthy relationship skills while supporting positive socioemotional development and promoting successful transitions to young adulthood. USCRI's READY4Life program will serve refugee and immigrant youth ages 14 to 24, including but not limited to those individuals receiving, or who previously received TANF and/or individuals who are eligible for TANF assistance; non-custodial and custodial single parents; low-income, at-risk individuals; parenting youth; individuals with disabilities; and other eligible demographics, with a focus on underserved populations.
The Relationship Education curriculum, that was successfully used with an adult refugee/immigrant population, has been adapted for youth into a 16-hour curriculum composed of 1-, 2- and 4-hour sessions. Sessions are spaced a week apart to accommodate both federal requirements and research that shows relationship skills are best learned when practiced over time. . READY4Life will include ten communication and conflict resolution skills, as well as content information about effects of trauma on emotional stability and relationships, characteristics and advantages of healthy marriage, setting and achieving financial priorities and goals. Adaptations of the four core skills are taught: Expression Skills, Showing Understanding Skills, Discussion Skills, and Problem-Solving Skills. In the remaining hours of the curriculum, six additional skills are taught: Coaching and Conflict Management Skills, Self-Change and Helping Others Change Skills, and Generalization Skills and Maintenance Skills. Though not a part of the 10 Relationship Enhancement skills, time will also be devoted to financial management and making progress towards greater economic stability.
The four primary research questions deal with: 1) Communication skills; 2) Conflict resolution, conflict management, and problem-solving skills; 3) Healthy relationship and marriage skills; 4) Progress towards greater economic stability. We have selected these research questions because we believe, and the literature supports the position, that these factors are of major importance in helping youth make a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood.
The intervention participants will receive the IDEALS curriculum for community participants ages 14 to 24. Total: 16 hours per intervention participant (3,600 total intervention participants).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 24 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Must be at least 14 years old and no more than 24 years old
- •Must self-identify as a refugee or immigrant
排除标准
- •Younger than 14 years old or older than 24 years old
- •Does not identify as a refugee or immigrant
研究组 & 干预措施
READY4Life Programming - classroom instruction
The intervention is an 16-hour classroom-based relationship education program taught by project staff. This instruction will strengthen and promote healthy marriages among young refugees and immigrants through education and comprehensive case management that will support an overall goal of helping youth build healthy relationship skills while supporting positive socio-emotional development and promoting successful transitions to young adulthood.
干预措施: READY4Life Programming - classroom instruction (Behavioral)
No Intervention: Control
The control group does not receive any part of the classroom instruction that the intervention group receives. Like the intervention group, however, the control group does have access to case management.
结局指标
主要结局
Healthy Communication Skills Score
时间窗: Time Frame: Pretest to Follow-up (six months after completion of the intervention - about 7 months after the pretest)
This outcome is the participants' score on a healthy marriage/relationship skills scale. This is a 10 item scale. It was used in an article recently published in Family Relations. The principal investigator for the present study (Young) was also the lead author for the study published in Family Relations. A sample item from the scale is "It is important to show appreciation for others." In the Family Relations study the items in the scale loaded on a single factor at .56 or above. The internal consistency (Chronbach's alpha) at pretest was .87. The percentage of the variance explained by the first component was 46. The results table will report the mean scores of the intervention and control groups at pretest, posttest and follow-up, as well as the results from the statistical analysis.
Conflict Resolution, Management, and Problem-Solving Skills Score
时间窗: Time Frame: Pretest to Follow-up (six months after completion of the intervention - about 7 months after the pretest)
This outcome is the participants' score on a conflict management/ resolution skills scale. This is a 6 item scale. It was used in an article recently published in Family Relations. The principal investigator for the present study (Young) was also the lead author for the study published in Family Relations. A sample item from the scale is "I follow through on promises and agreements." In the Family Relations study the items in the scale loaded on a single factor at .60 or above. The internal consistency (Chronbach's alpha) at pretest was .83. The percentage of the variance explained by the first component was 54.The results table will report the mean scores of the intervention and control groups at pretest, posttest and follow-up, as well as the results from the statistical analysis.
Progress Toward Greater Economic Stability
时间窗: Time Frame: Pretest to Follow-up (six months after completion of the intervention - about 7 months after the pretest)
This outcome is the participants' score on an attitudes about personal finances scale. This is a 6 item scale. It was used in an article recently published in Family Relations. The principal investigator for the present study (Young) was also the lead author for the study published in Family Relations. A sample item from the scale is "I can reduce conflict about money through discussion and problem solving." In the Family Relations study the items in the scale loaded on a single factor at .63 or above. The internal consistency (Chronbach's alpha) at pretest was .72 and .94 at posttest.The results table will report the mean scores of the intervention and control groups at pretest, posttest and follow-up, as well as the results from the statistical analysis.
Healthy Relationship and Marriage Skills Score
时间窗: Time Frame: Pretest to Follow-up (six months after completion of the intervention - about 7 months after the pretest)
This outcome is the participants' score on a healthy relationship and marriage skills scale. This is a 6 item scale. A sample item from the scale is "In times of crisis we can turn to each other for support." The results table will report the mean scores of the intervention and control groups at pretest, posttest and follow-up, as well as the results from the statistical analysis.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Michael Young
Principal Investigator
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants