Using Media to Shift Social Norms of Violence Among Youth

NCT ID: NCT02706145

Last Updated: 2022-11-14

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

8037 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-03-31

Study Completion Date

2021-12-31

Brief Summary

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The project will utilize a quasi-experimental design to examine the effectiveness of a community-level, three-year social norming campaign aimed at changing norms of violence among youth 10-24, with West Louisville (WL) as the intervention community and East Nashville, Tennessee as the control community. The project will address the following research questions (RQs):

RQ1: To what extent is a social norming campaign effective in changing the descriptive and injunctive norms of violence among youth in WL?

RQ2: To what extent are the descriptive and injunctive norms of violence among youth in WL related to violent behavior (by type)?

RQ3: To what extent is a social norming campaign effective in reducing population rates of youth violence in WL?

RQ4: Which forms of media are most effective in reaching youth of different ages with campaign messages?

RQ5: How is community readiness related to implementation of a community-level social norming campaign?

RQ6: How is community capacity related to implementation of a community-level social norming campaign?

RQ7: How does community capacity to address youth violence change over time with the implementation of a community-level social norming campaign?

RQ8: To what extent is a social norming campaign cost-effective in reducing incidents of serious violence among youth?

Detailed Description

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The Center of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention at the University of Louisville (UofL) School of Public Health \& Information Sciences capitalizes on a specific window of opportunity-where there is currently alignment of a public consciousness of the issue of youth violence, the availability of expertise to implement a feasible intervention, and substantial political will across community sectors to address the issue. This provides an ideal context for the creation of the UofL Center for Youth Violence Prevention, allowing us to partner with residents and organizations in West Louisville (WL) to develop, implement, and evaluate a community-level intervention to reduce youth violence. To this end, we plan to achieve five specific aims:

AIM 1: Strengthen the infrastructure to support youth violence prevention research and practice at the University of Louisville.

AIM 2: Develop, implement and evaluate a community-level social norming campaign to change the norms of violence among youth in West Louisville using mass and social media.

AIM 3: Document the development and implementation of the social norming campaign to improve replication and scalability in other settings or communities.

AIM 4: Evaluate the relationship between community readiness, community capacity, and the implementation of the community-level social norming campaign.

AIM 5: Facilitate knowledge translation and dissemination initiatives to relevant audiences (i.e., community, local organizations and leaders, youth violence prevention researchers and practitioners, academic peers, and policy-makers) that produce actionable community- and policy-level approaches.

Conditions

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Violence

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention Group (West Louisville)

This group will be exposed to the social norming campaign via traditional, mass, and social media over the three-year intervention period.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Social norming campaign

Intervention Type OTHER

community-level, three-year social norming campaign, using traditional and emerging media, aimed at changing norms of violence among youth 10-24

Control Group (East Nashville)

This group will serve as the control group, and measures of social norms and attitudes toward violence will be compared between this group and the intervention group.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Social norming campaign

community-level, three-year social norming campaign, using traditional and emerging media, aimed at changing norms of violence among youth 10-24

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* youth between 10 and 24 years of age who reside in one of the nine neighborhoods of West Louisville or in the comparison site of East Nashville

Exclusion Criteria

* individuals outside the age range (i.e., younger than 10 or older than 24) or who do not live in the intervention or comparison communities
Minimum Eligible Age

10 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

24 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

FED

Sponsor Role collaborator

Vanderbilt University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Louisville

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Monica L. Wendel

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Monica L Wendel, DrPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Louisville School of Public Health

Maury Nation, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Vanderbilt University

Locations

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University of Louisville School of Public Health & Information Sciences

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Site Status

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Castle B, Wendel M, Kerr J, Brooms D, Rollins A. Public Health's Approach to Systemic Racism: a Systematic Literature Review. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2019 Feb;6(1):27-36. doi: 10.1007/s40615-018-0494-x. Epub 2018 May 4.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29729001 (View on PubMed)

Wendel ML, Jones G Jr. Equity for Whom? The Example of Qualified Opportunity Zones. Am J Public Health. 2020 Mar;110(3):280-281. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305532. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32023101 (View on PubMed)

Wendel ML. Commentary: Racism is a Public Health Emergency. Fam Community Health. 2020 Oct/Dec;43(4):255-256. doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000281. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32826736 (View on PubMed)

Castle B, Wendel M, Kelly Pryor BN, Ingram M. Assessing Community Leadership: Understanding Community Capacity for Health Improvement. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2017 Jul/Aug;23 Suppl 4 Suppl, Community Health Status Assessment:S47-S52. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000587.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 28542064 (View on PubMed)

Golden TL, Wendel ML. Public Health's Next Step in Advancing Equity: Re-evaluating Epistemological Assumptions to Move Social Determinants From Theory to Practice. Front Public Health. 2020 May 7;8:131. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00131. eCollection 2020.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 32457863 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

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Other Identifiers

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1U01CE002711

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

View Link

15.0910

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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