Skip to main content
OpenTrials
Completed

NCT Number: NCT02157493

Evaluation of an Entrepreneurship Program for American-Indian Youth

This study will use a randomized controlled design to evaluate whether a youth entrepreneurship/life-skills intervention for reservation-based American Indian adolescents (ages 13-15) improves psychosocial, behavioral health, educational, and economic outcomes from baseline for up to 3 years follow-up as compared to a recreational sports league control condition.

Completed

Looking for future studies?

Notify Me

Key information

Conditions

Depressive Symptoms Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Chemically-Induced Disorders Depression Mental Disorders Substance Use Substance-Related Disorders

Age range

13 year–15 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health - Whiteriver Office

Whiteriver, Arizona, 85941, United States

About this study

Intervention activities will be held over a 3 night/4 day residential camp and 6 weekend workshops during the academic year. The control condition will consist of a recreational sports league held on 3 Saturdays, also during the academic year.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • American Indian ethnicity and primary residence within the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.
  • Participants must be 13-15 years old, enrolled as a student at one of the participating high schools, and must have parent/guardian consent for participation in the study.

Exclusion criteria

  • Youth that are currently enrolled in foster care will not be eligible to participate in the study.
  • Those unable to participate in any of the evaluation assessments or intervention components will also be excluded.

Treatment and study plan

Arrowhead Business Group Curriculum

Behavioral

Arrowhead Business Group (ABG) is a culturally tailored entrepreneurship/life-skills intervention, which features instruction from American Indian paraprofessionals in an effort to decrease drug use, depressive symptoms, hopelessness and other high-risk behaviors among youth while improving their school performance and college/career aspirations.

Recreational League Control Condition

Behavioral

The control condition will consist of a recreational sports league that will be led by local American Indian study staff who are experienced with Johns Hopkins camps and community-based Apache sports programs. Activities will be conducted on 3 Saturdays during the academic year to mixed gender groups of approximately 50 participants.

Primary outcomes

  1. Decreased substance use as measured by Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) in treatment vs. control group at 24 months follow-up

    Time frame: 24 months follow-up

Secondary outcomes

  1. Decreased depressive symptoms on Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) in treatment vs. control group at 24 months follow-up

    Time frame: 24 months follow-up

  2. Increased academic achievement as measured by school records and Across Time Orientation measure in treatment vs. control group at 24 months follow-up

    Time frame: 24 months follow-up

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Other

Collaborators

  • Native American Research Center for Health

Registry information

Official study title

Evaluation of an Entrepreneurship Program on Psychosocial, Behavioral Health, Educational and Economic Outcomes Among American-Indian Youth

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2019
First posted
Jun 6, 2014
Registry last updated
Jan 17, 2024

OpenTrials presents study information sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov. The official registry record should be consulted for the latest information.

View the official ClinicalTrials.gov record (opens in a new tab)

This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

Related clinical trials

Published trials that share one or more normalized conditions with this study.