HEALTHY (Health Education Adolescent Leadership Training to Help Youth) Leaders

This project will measure baseline stress among a group of youth in foster and kinship care. The investigators will implement a pilot program to target stress reduction by using an evidence-based group therapy technique teaching mindfulness skills. The investigators hypothesize that the mindfulness skills will help youth to reduce stress, which will be measured using psychological and physiological techniques.

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Key information

Conditions

Stress

Age range

14 year–21 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York, 14642, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

ages 14-21 years at time of intervention being offered, offered to youth in out of home care (e.g. foster and kinship care)

Exclusion criteria

severe developmental delay
non English speaking, not in age range

Treatment and study plan

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Behavioral

an 8 week group intervention to teach mindfulness skills

only pre and post evaluation measures

Behavioral

Primary outcomes

Number of Participants Reporting Pediatric Symptoms as Assessed by the Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 (PSC-17)

Time frame: Baseline and week 10

Self Administered questionnaire to assess level of stress at baseline and week 10. PSC-17 is a one page behavioral assessment tool that can be completed in <5 minutes and can assess the sub-domains of attention, externalizing problem and internalizing problems. Attention, externalizing and Internalizing domains are each scored on a scale from 0 (best) to 10 (worst), where a score >= 7 indicates stress.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Rochester

Other

Registry information

Acronym: HEALTHY

Important dates

Study start: 2012
Primary completion: 2013
Study completion: 2013
First posted: Oct 16, 2012
Registry last updated: Nov 23, 2015

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