Evaluation of Teen Connection Project for Trans and Gender Minority Youth
NCT ID: NCT06587139
Last Updated: 2025-11-05
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
56 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2024-07-22
2025-06-03
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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The specific aims of this trial are as follow:
1. Assess acceptability and feasibility of the Teen Connection Project (TCP) through observations (to evaluate program delivery and observe mentor-mentee interactions), post-session surveys, and exit interviews with participants.
2. Generate preliminary data on the TCP's efficacy in reducing psychosocial and behavioral health issues facing TGMY, including mental health problems, self-harm, alcohol and drug use, sexual risk-taking, and teen dating violence.
3. Identify treatment options for TGMY.
The purpose of this project is to develop and evaluate an online mentoring and skill-building program for transgender and/or gender minority youth (TGMY) ages 14 to 18, the Teen Connection Project (TCP). The TCP includes seven 90-minute sessions facilitated by transgender and/or gender minority (TGM) adults (who are also mentors). TGMY will be paired with a TGM adult mentors, based on their shared interests. Mentors and mentees will participate together in each session, along with other mentors and mentees. Mentors will direct activities and discussion to promote TGMY social-emotional skills. The TCP sessions will include one-on-one mentor-mentee break-out sessions.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
NONE
Study Groups
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Treatment
The Teen Connection Project (TCP) is theoretically grounded, and follows best practices for effective health behavior prevention. It includes seven 90-minute sessions with group and one-on-one mentoring components. The intervention is facilitated by transgender and/or gender minority adults (i.e., any identity other than cisgender).
Teen Connection Project (TCP)
The Teen Connection Project (TCP) includes seven 90-minute sessions facilitated by transgender and/or gender minority (TGM) adults. Each transgender and/or gender minority youth (TGMY) will be paired with a TGM adult mentor based on TGMYs' rank-ordered preference for mentors. The research team seeks to match mentors \& mentees such that each TGMY is matched with one of their top 3 preferred mentors. Mentors and mentees participate together in each session along with other mentors \& mentees. Facilitators direct activities/discussion to promote TGMY social-emotional skills acquisition and facilitate mentor-mentee conversations. TCP sessions also include mentor-mentee breakout sessions where mentors share challenges they personally faced as TGMY and how they overcame them. Break-out discussions focus on self-acceptance, coming out, dating questions, hopes and goals for the future, \& how other marginalized social identities, such as race and ethnicity, intersect with identifying as TGMY.
Waitlist control
Provide check-ins, provide resources, and offer program after intervention and measurement has been completed.
No interventions assigned to this group
Mentors
Mentors complete a two-day training and post-training survey, facilitate programming, and complete post-session surveys. A subset of the mentors will complete exit interviews.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Teen Connection Project (TCP)
The Teen Connection Project (TCP) includes seven 90-minute sessions facilitated by transgender and/or gender minority (TGM) adults. Each transgender and/or gender minority youth (TGMY) will be paired with a TGM adult mentor based on TGMYs' rank-ordered preference for mentors. The research team seeks to match mentors \& mentees such that each TGMY is matched with one of their top 3 preferred mentors. Mentors and mentees participate together in each session along with other mentors \& mentees. Facilitators direct activities/discussion to promote TGMY social-emotional skills acquisition and facilitate mentor-mentee conversations. TCP sessions also include mentor-mentee breakout sessions where mentors share challenges they personally faced as TGMY and how they overcame them. Break-out discussions focus on self-acceptance, coming out, dating questions, hopes and goals for the future, \& how other marginalized social identities, such as race and ethnicity, intersect with identifying as TGMY.
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* be between the ages of 14 to 18 years
* read and speak English
* live in the United States
* report consistent access to a phone, tablet, and/or computer with high-speed internet access/Wi-Fi (which represents 90+% of youth in the United States)
* report an ability to attend seven, 90-minute online sessions at pre-determined times
* pass an assent quiz
* report moderate to high levels of internalized transphobia
* be 30 years old or older
* identify as transgender and/or gender minority (i.e., any identity other than cisgender)
Exclusion Criteria
* demonstrate current psychosis as determined by the Prodromal Questionnaire; modified to just focus on visual and auditory symptoms
• not be currently experiencing substance use disorder or mental health challenges
14 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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University of Rhode Island
OTHER
University of Michigan
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Katie M Edwards
Professor, School of Social Work Director, Interpersonal Violence Research Laboratory (IVRL)
Principal Investigators
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Katie M Edwards, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Michigan
Locations
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[online program, administered by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln]
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Countries
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References
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Document Type: Informed Consent Form
Other Identifiers
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23676
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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