Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Violence, Sexual; Violence, Domestic; Violence, Physical; Violence, Structural; Community Violence; Violence in Adolescence; Social Cohesion; Violence, Non-accidental
• Interventions: Behavioral: Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention (CRCEI); Behavioral: Health Education Sessions

• Registration Number: NCT05768217
• Lead Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh

Brief Summary

This study will evaluate, via a cluster-randomized controlled trial, the effectiveness of a community-centered intervention that promotes thriving and resiliency to reduce community violence.

Detailed Description

This study will evaluate, via a cluster-randomized controlled trial, the effectiveness of an innovative community-centered intervention that promotes thriving and resiliency to reduce community violence. In collaboration with community partners, this study will implement a Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention (CRCEI) to engage community members in dialogue on neighborhood transformation, racial and gender equity, community leadership, and organizing for social change. Facilitating discussion and community organizing within neighborhoods about child and youth thriving is expected to increase individual and neighborhood levels of collective efficacy and reduce community violence. Using a community-partnered participatory approach, this study will use a Community Thriving Matrix tool to engage youth and adult community members in ongoing dialogue on neighborhood transformation, community leadership, and organizing for social change. This focus on envisioning and creating neighborhoods in which children and adolescents can thrive is expected to translate to increased individual and neighborhood levels of collective efficacy as well as violence reduction. Comparison neighborhoods will receive health education sessions as a control intervention. The proposed study involves diverse neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh region and collecting survey data from youth (ages 13-19 years) and adult community participants (both male and female identified). Interviews with a sub-sample of community residents and facilitators and community site leads as well as observations of intervention delivery will provide qualitative information on processes of program implementation. This study will provide the first rigorous evaluation of this community-level prevention approach.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-02-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-03-12
• Study First Posted: 2023-03-14
• Status Verified: 2024-06
• Study Start: 2024-06-24
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-06-25
• Last Update Posted: 2024-06-27
• Primary Completion: 2026-09-30
• Study Completion: 2027-09-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 4600

Inclusion Criteria

• youth age 13 years old and up (all genders)
• adults 18 years and older (all genders)
• reside in neighborhoods selected to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

• individuals younger than 13 years old

  • individuals residing outside of participating neighborhoods

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention (CRCEI)	Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention (CRCEI)	Community Resiliency Collective Efficacy Intervention (CRCEI) to engage community members in dialogue on thriving, community leadership, and organizing for social change (9 sessions).
Health Education Sessions	Health Education Sessions	Comparison neighborhoods will receive health education sessions as a control intervention. (9 sessions)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from baseline in perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy and community cohesion	Change from baseline to approximately 12 months after baseline	Composite Measure mean score (range 1 - 5; 1 is low and 5 is best) of neighborhood-level perceptions of collective efficacy and community cohesion

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from baseline in collective efficacy and neighborhood social norms	Change from baseline to approximately 12 months after baseline	Composite Collective Efficacy Measure mean score (range 1-5; 1 is lowest and 5 is best) of individual-level collective efficacy and neighborhood social norms
Community incidence of violence in 12 month period	Change from 1 year period before baseline to approximately 2 years after baseline	number of incidents of violence, i.e., assaults, gun violence, referrals to child protective services, compared to control neighborhoods.
Number of self-reported events of violence exposure	Change from baseline to approximately 12 months after baseline	count of individual-level events of violence exposure

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Pittsburgh; 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States