NCT04192318

Evaluating Outcomes for Youth Receiving Hospital-based Violence Prevention With and Without a Community-level Initiative

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to test if a hospital-based violence prevention strategy with a community-level initiative is effective for cross-cutting violence prevention in violently injured youth.

Detailed description

This study will test if youth who receive the Bridging the Gap (BTG) and Communities that Care (CTC Plus) will see greater improvements than youth who either receive BTG only, CTC Plus only or no intervention. This study will allow researchers to learn more about the intervention's effectiveness for a range of violent outcomes. It will also help researchers understand if violence prevention efforts affect other behaviors, such as drug use and rates of violent re-injury. Participants will be asked to complete surveys about their behavior, personality, and experiences, and their parent/child's personality, behavior, and experiences. These surveys take about 45-60 minutes to complete. These questionnaires will be completed before the intervention has taken place and then again 6 months later. Participation in this study will last up to 6 months. Approximately 408 individuals will participate in this study.

Conditions

• Violence in Adolescence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Bridging the Gap	Bridging the Gap is a hybrid model for violence prevention which integrates a hospital-based brief violence intervention (BVI) delivered to the patient while in hospital with a wrap-around community case management prevention strategy.
OTHER	Communities that Care (CTC)	In CTC programs stakeholders elect evidence-based prevention strategies that are most appropriate for their community. These evidence-based strategies target their community's specific needs, such as reducing risk factors while supporting and increasing protective factors.
OTHER	Treatment as usual	Treat and release

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-10
• Primary completion: 2020-02-10
• Completion: 2020-02-10
• First posted: 2019-12-10
• Last updated: 2022-03-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States