Qoyangnuptu: Peer Mentor

Northern Arizona University (NAU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1

Treatments: Behavioral: Peer Mentors

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06254872

2125144

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the impacts of participating in a peer mentor program in a Southwestern Tribal Community. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• In American Indian/Alaska Native communities with unique cultural characteristics, how should a youth-focused sociotechnical behavioral health intervention be designed to encourage sustained engagement and positively impact indicators of behavioral health?;
• How can interactive technical interventions be designed to best support sustained community engagement in a challenged network environment?

Participants will:

• Be trained as peer mentors
• Be trained in how to use the QI App to communicate with mentees
• Guide daily conversation prompts with a group of 3 mentees via the QI App
• Provide daily encouragement to mentees to engage with mindfulness activities on the QI App

Enrollment: 4 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Member of Southwestern Tribal Community
• Has a smartphone
• Has access to the Internet with the smartphone at least once per day

Exclusion criteria

• Has not completed GED/High School Diploma

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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4 participants in 1 patient group

Peer Mentors

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be trained in how to be peer mentors to anonymous participants through a smartphone app. Participants will provide daily prompts to their mentees to encourage anonymous discussion in the group chat feature of the smartphone app. Participants will provide daily encouragement to their mentees to use features of the smartphone app to practice mindfulness skills.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Peer Mentors