NCT02900638

Health Effects of Mentoring

Pilot Study of Physical Health Effects of Cities Mentor Project

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 55 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwestern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether mentoring is associated with beneficial cardiovascular health effects in both mentors and mentees.

Detailed description

Participants are randomly assigned to either being a mentor or a wait list control. These participants are drawn from a population of undergraduate students. Participants are also randomly assigned to either being a mentee or a wait list control. These participants are drawn from a population of Chicago Public School children. In total, there will be 30 mentors, 30 control mentors, 30 mentees, and 30 control mentees. Participants will come for a laboratory visit in which cardiovascular health measures will be taken (details below). Visits will occur once at baseline (before the intervention starts), and once post-intervention. The protocol will be the same at the two study visits. Participants in the intervention group will engage in one-on-one mentoring sessions (between mentors and mentees) once a week after school for the school year

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mentoring	Youth in the intervention group will participate in one-on-one mentoring sessions (between mentors and mentees) once per week after school. Mentoring sessions will focus on the development of a social bond between mentor and mentee.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-08-01
• First posted: 2016-09-14
• Last updated: 2020-03-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States