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| 4UH3AT012530 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source |
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| National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) | NIH |
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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 this project 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. The investigators seek to understand whether LEAP can support wellbeing for youth as a strategy to increase youth mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) health.
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 four time points; facilitators will also complete interviews post-intervention and provide feedback on data fidelity and acceptability following each session. This record reports on the UH3 phase of the grant.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness | Experimental | The Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness intervention (LEAP) consists of 14 sessions focused on youth leadership and mindfulness. |
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| EnvisionIT | Active Comparator | EnvisionIT is a college and career-readiness program designed for students in grades 6-12. The EnvisionIT program will be delivered over 14 sessions, and focus on skills and career/college readiness. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness | Behavioral | The Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness intervention (LEAP) was designed and co-created with youth to improve youth well-being by enhancing leadership opportunities and by developing mindfulness in day-to-day life. LEAP seeks to foster these improvements in youth and to increase youth mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Youth voice is incorporated into the intervention, with facilitators leading the first 7 sessions, and youth leading the remainder. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness (EPOCH; Kern et al., 2016) measure of adolescent wellbeing | 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. | Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months |
| Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 2001) | 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. | Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months |
| Self-Rated Health 12-item Short-Form Survey (SF-12; Ware et al., 1996) | 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. | Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Student Career Construction Inventory (Savickas, 2018) | 18 item measure 5-point survey measuring crystallizing a vocational self-concept, exploring to gather information about occupations, deciding to commit to an occupational choice, and preparing to implement that choice. Scale scores range from 1-5, with higher scores indicating greater focus on each of the four tasks of career choice construction. |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Jennifer Greif Green, PhD | Contact | 617-353-3253 | jggreen@bu.edu | |
| Mario Cruz-Gonzalez, PhD | Contact | 617-513-8762 | mcruzgonzalez@mgh.harvard.edu |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Mario Cruz-Gonzalez, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Principal Investigator |
| Jennifer Greif Green, Ph | Boston University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Illinois, Chicago | Recruiting | Chicago | Illinois | 60608 | United States |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 34350588 | Background | Alegria M, Alvarez K, NeMoyer A, Zhen-Duan J, Marsico C, O'Malley IS, Mukthineni R, Porteny T, Herrera CN, Najarro Cermeno J, Kingston K, Sisay E, Trickett E. Development of a Youth Civic Engagement Program: Process and Pilot Testing with a Youth-Partnered Research Team. Am J Community Psychol. 2022 Mar;69(1-2):86-99. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12548. Epub 2021 Aug 4. |
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Determinations will be made on a case-by-case basis of what type of data can be shared while maintaining confidentiality of respondents. The investigators are still establishing a plan for data sharing.
Data will be shared after findings for primary outcomes are published. Time frame for sharing will be based on requests, based on recommendations from the funding agency.
Determinations will be made on a case-by-case basis of what type of data can be shared while maintaining confidentiality of respondents. Any data shared will be de-identified and will follow established systems for security in data use.
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Individually Randomized Group Treatment Trial Design
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Outcomes assessors will be masked to study condition.
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| EnvisionIT | Behavioral | Participants in this arm will receive 14 sessions of EnvisionIT training, focused on preparing students with essential skills including digital literacy through competency in information technology, financial literacy, English language arts skills, and college and career readiness. All sessions will be delivered by facilitators trained in EnvisionIT. |
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| Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months |
| Vocational Skills Self-Efficacy (VSSE; McWhirter et al., 2000) | 29 item 5-point survey measuring level of confidence to establish and work toward job goals. Scale scores range from 29-145, with higher scores indicating greater vocational self-efficacy. | Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months |
| METCO | Recruiting | Boston | Massachusetts | 02119 | United States |
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| Boston University | Recruiting | Boston | Massachusetts | 02215 | United States |
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| ID | Term |
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| D007857 | Leadership |
| D064866 | Mindfulness |
| ID | Term |
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| D010559 | Personnel Management |
| D009934 | Organization and Administration |
| D006298 | Health Services Administration |
| D015928 | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy |
| D001521 | Behavior Therapy |
| D011613 | Psychotherapy |
| D004191 | Behavioral Disciplines and Activities |
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