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Interpersonal Relationships Intervention and Cardiovascular Health

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Northwestern University

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Cardiovascular Health

Treatments

Behavioral: Mentoring
Behavioral: Comparison group - written materials

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

NCT03670368
00203223
R01HL136676 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether random assignment to a mentor-mentee relationship is associated with beneficial cardiovascular health effects in both mentors and mentees.

Full description

Participants will be undergraduate students randomly assigned to either being in the mentor or comparison group. A second set of participants will be randomly assigned to either being in the mentee or comparison group. These participants will come from Chicago Public School elementary schools. In total, there will be 125 mentors, 125 comparators, 125 mentees, and 125 comparators. Participants will come for a laboratory visit in which cardiovascular health measures will be taken (details below). Visits will occur once at baseline (before the intervention starts), and once post-intervention. There will be a mid-point assessment of questionnaires. Participants in the intervention group will engage in one-on-one mentoring sessions (mentors together with mentees) once a week after school for the school year. Participants in the comparator group will receive written versions of all materials covered in the mentoring sessions.

Enrollment

500 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

10 to 25 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • undergraduate students for mentors
  • Chicago Public School students for mentees

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

500 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention (Mentor/Mentee)
Experimental group
Description:
Youth in the intervention group will participate in one-on-one mentoring sessions (between mentors and mentees) once per week after school. Mentoring sessions will focus on social relationships, coping behaviors, and healthy lifestyles.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Mentoring
Comparison group - written materials
Active Comparator group
Description:
Youth in the comparator group will receive written versions of all materials covered in the mentoring sessions.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Comparison group - written materials

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Edith Chen

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