School Health Center Healthy Adolescent Relationship Program (SHARP)

University of Pittsburgh

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adolescent Relationship Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: SHARP Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01678378

12020646

Details and patient eligibility

About

This community-partnered participatory study will work within high school health centers (SHCs) to test, via a 2-armed cluster randomized controlled trial, a multi-level intervention to reduce adolescent relationship abuse (ARA) among adolescents ages 14-19. The goal of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the School Health Center Healthy Adolescent Relationships Program (SHARP) intervention in SHCs on individual SHC clients, the SHC clinic environment, and the schools in which the SHCs are located. Evaluation of the intervention will involve random assignment of eight comparable SHCs in the Greater Bay Area of California that provide comprehensive health services, to either intervention or control sites. Adolescent females and males ages 14-19 seeking care at any of these SHCs (N=1200) will be assessed via audio computer-assisted survey instrument (ACASI) at baseline and 16-20 weeks follow-up to examine intervention effects on knowledge and self-efficacy regarding ARA, harm reduction and ARA-related resources as well as intentions to intervene with peers. For youth reporting recent ARA victimization, the investigators will assess for increases in ARA disclosure, resource utilization, as well as reduction in ARA victimization.

Enrollment: 1,012 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 14-19
• receiving services at one of the eight SHARP Intervention school health centers
• able to read English or Spanish

Exclusion criteria

• clients not of the specified age range
• clients who are intoxicated or otherwise not able to provide their own consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,012 participants in 2 patient groups

SHARP Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

School health centers randomized to the SHARP Intervention will be trained to address adolescent relationship abuse with school health center clients.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SHARP Intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

School health centers randomized to Control will provide standard of care.