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PLANTS Pilot Trial

NCT05897827 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 99

Last updated 2025-04-04

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Summary

This pilot cluster-randomized controlled trial will evaluate the PLANTS (Providing LGBTQ+ Adolescents with Nurturance, Trustworthiness, and Safety) course among high school staff. The primary hypotheses are that the PLANTS course will have high acceptability, usability, appropriateness, and feasibility as reported by high school staff.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Drinking
  • Social Acceptance
  • Depressive Symptoms
  • Bullying

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

PLANTS

PLANTS intervention is an online-delivered training program, including asynchronous and synchronous activities. This intervention was informed by the Information-Motivation-Behavior theory to target skills, self-efficacy, knowledge, and outcome expectations. There are 3 asynchronous online modules that cover a variety of topics including lessons on LGBTQ+ terminology, names and pronouns, resources, antibullying, gender neutral bathrooms, student confidentiality, active empathic listening, and school policies. Module include recorded presentations, student testimonials, activities, and downloadable resources for future reference. Every month, 7-9 lessons are opened. There are 2 synchronous group events delivered via Zoom and are 1.5 hours each.

BEHAVIORAL

EMAILS

The active control arm is an email-based intervention, EMAILS, in which existing public resources for supporting, affirming, and protecting LGBTQ+ students are emailed to participants.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert Coulter, PhD, MPH · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-28
Primary Completion
2024-02-09
Completion
2024-02-09

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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