You & Me Healthy: Youth Empowered Self-Care Substudy (YES)

NCT ID: NCT06255093

Last Updated: 2024-08-09

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

150 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-02-13

Study Completion Date

2024-08-30

Brief Summary

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You \& Me Healthy: Youth Empowered Self-Care, or YES, is a study that aims to link 150 youth ages 8-12 and families to free or low-cost community-based programs, resources, and clinical care options that promote mental wellness and help reduce anxiety.

Community-based programs can include:

* Afterschool programs
* Local parks and recreation activities
* Youth social programming

Detailed Description

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The You \& Me Healthy; Youth Empowered Self-care study seeks to evaluate a direct-to-participant mental health intervention for youth living in underserved communities, comprising online self-screening tools, educational materials and online linkage to treatment options, and referral to free or low-cost accessible out-of-school community-based resources. Participants will self-'triage' online to access education, community resources, and clinical care options when necessary. This work will provide access and explore mechanisms for addressing wellness and anxiety needs among youth drawing from self-reported and web interaction data over a 4-month period. The central hypothesis is that the researchers will demonstrate the value of a direct-to-participant, community asset based mental health promotion program in response to COVID-19 impacts. In addition, the team aims to specifically identify approaches to enable access to community-based anxiety and mental wellness resources in underserved populations.

Out-of-school youth programs play an important role in supporting students' mental health, yet program participation has dwindled since the COVID-19 pandemic. These programs provide students with psychosocial, developmental, and health and wellness benefits. Specifically, structured youth programs can engage students in recreation, provide academic enrichment, access to green spaces, as well as opportunities for promoting social interaction and connectedness with peers, adaptive functioning, mentorship, as well as resilience, mental health, and well-being. Out-of-school youth programs are particularly critical for students who live in under resourced communities with high transportation vulnerability and limited access to community-based recreation, although unmet demand for programs is highest in underserved areas. Nationally, 9 out of 10 parents agree that out-of-school youth programs are important to their community, and 80% of North Carolina parents indicate that these programs give them peace of mind and help them to keep their jobs. Out-of-school youth programs also have been proposed as an ideal setting for supporting children's health and wellness. Put simply, out-of-school youth programs provide students with safe and supportive settings for recreation, mentorship, learning, and structure that are particularly essential for underserved communities. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has created hardships for youth to attend out-of-school programs nationwide. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, over 10 million youth participated in out-of-school programs nationally, although more than 80% of programs reported difficulties providing ongoing services during the COVID-19 pandemic due to poor enrollment. The gap in psychosocial support typically provided through out-of-school youth programs has likely exacerbated mental health needs during the pandemic, particularly for underserved students, and further overburdening the health care system.

The research team is working together with two large community organizations as partners for this study (Durham Parks and Recreation Department and Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation Department), who will coordinate directly with 150 youth and families (75 participants per site) to link youth to community-based youth programs that have potential to support youth mental health needs. All eligible and consented participants will complete basic data collection including demographics, mental health symptom questions, additional barriers to program enrollment and attendance, and satisfaction survey questions using REDCap. Participants will also receive online resource linkage to mental wellness education and anxiety treatment locations as applicable.

Conditions

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Anxiety Wellness, Psychological

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants will be self-triaged to one of two study arms: (1) Pre-surveys only (did not meet referral criteria based on screening assessment) and receive online mental wellness education and anxiety treatment options information; (2) Pre-surveys, meet referral criteria, referred to a program, post-surveys. Post-surveys will occur at the end of the out-of-school program, or 4 months after joining the program (whichever comes first).
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Pre-Surveys Only

Pre-surveys only (did not meet referral criteria based on screening assessment) and receive online wellness education and anxiety treatment options information

Group Type OTHER

Pre-surveys only

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Receive online wellness education and anxiety treatment options information

Pre-Surveys, Recreational Program Referral, Post Surveys

Pre-surveys, meet referral criteria, referred to a program, post-surveys. Post-surveys will occur at the end of the out-of-school program, or 4 months after joining the program (whichever comes first).

Group Type OTHER

Community-based recreation program referral

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Provide referral to local Parks and Recreation for programs of interest and participation. Participants will have the option to join a program (up to 4months) and have access to additional resources via study webpage to identify support services.

Interventions

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Community-based recreation program referral

Provide referral to local Parks and Recreation for programs of interest and participation. Participants will have the option to join a program (up to 4months) and have access to additional resources via study webpage to identify support services.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Pre-surveys only

Receive online wellness education and anxiety treatment options information

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* In order to be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet all of the following criteria:

1. Self-reported primary residence within the pre-identified communities
2. Age 8-12 years at enrollment
3. Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
Minimum Eligible Age

8 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

12 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Durham Parks and Recreation (Durham, NC)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Duke University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Emily D'agostino, DPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Duke University

Christoph Horniik, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Duke University

Locations

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Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation

Miami, Florida, United States

Site Status

Durham Parks and Recreation

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Related Links

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http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/health_disparities.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2023). COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Health Disparities

http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/documents/nc-afterschool-facts.pdf

Inspiring Learning. Safe and Supportive. Lifeline for Working Families. This is Afterschool in North Carolina

http://www.ncforum.org/new-household-survey-north-carolina-is-a-top-10-state-for-afterschool-even-as-unmet-demand-for-programs-increases/

New Household Survey: North Carolina Is a 'Top 10 State for Afterschool, ' Even as Unmet Demand for Programs Increases

http://covid19.who.int/region/amro/country/us

United States of America: Who coronavirus disease (covid-19) dashboard with vaccination data.

Other Identifiers

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PRO00114773

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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