NCT02157493

Evaluation of an Entrepreneurship Program for American-Indian Youth

Evaluation of an Entrepreneurship Program on Psychosocial, Behavioral Health, Educational and Economic Outcomes Among American-Indian Youth

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 449 (actual)
• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will use a randomized controlled design to evaluate whether a youth entrepreneurship/life-skills intervention for reservation-based American Indian adolescents (ages 13-15) improves psychosocial, behavioral health, educational, and economic outcomes from baseline for up to 3 years follow-up as compared to a recreational sports league control condition.

Detailed description

Intervention activities will be held over a 3 night/4 day residential camp and 6 weekend workshops during the academic year. The control condition will consist of a recreational sports league held on 3 Saturdays, also during the academic year.

Conditions

• Depressive Symptoms
• Substance Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Arrowhead Business Group Curriculum	Arrowhead Business Group (ABG) is a culturally tailored entrepreneurship/life-skills intervention, which features instruction from American Indian paraprofessionals in an effort to decrease drug use, depressive symptoms, hopelessness and other high-risk behaviors among youth while improving their school performance and college/career aspirations.
BEHAVIORAL	Recreational League Control Condition	The control condition will consist of a recreational sports league that will be led by local American Indian study staff who are experienced with Johns Hopkins camps and community-based Apache sports programs. Activities will be conducted on 3 Saturdays during the academic year to mixed gender groups of approximately 50 participants.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-04-01
• Primary completion: 2018-07-01
• Completion: 2019-06-25
• First posted: 2014-06-06
• Last updated: 2024-01-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States