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NCT Number: NCT05585918

The R-CITY Project: A Collaborative Intervention With Teachers and Youth

"R-CITY" refers to the Collaborative Intervention with Teachers and Youth to practice and apply the 4 "Rs" of social skills in the classroom - Recognizing, Responding, Relationships, and Resilience. R-CITY is a collaborative teacher- and youth-focused prevention intervention that offers student lessons to accompany the Second Step curriculum. The lessons are designed to create safe and positive learning environments for all.

The R-CITY Project uses a school-level randomized controlled trial (RCT) design to test the integration of the Second Step program that the school district had been scaling up district wide with the R-CITY lessons. The purpose of the RCT is to determine the "value-added" of the Second Step program plus the new skill content compared to the Second Step alone in elementary and middle schools. Students in both conditions get access to the Second Step content, as an active control condition.

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This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.

Key information

Conditions

Violence

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Shepard Pratt Health System

Towson, Maryland, 21204, United States

About this study

The study aims to test the R-CITY intervention in 27 elementary and middle schools. Specific aims are as follows: Aim 1 is to test the effects of the integrated R-CITY intervention on attitudes. Aim 2 is to test the effects of the integrated R-CITY intervention on classroom practices and teaching self-efficacy. Aim 3 is to test the effects of the integrated R-CITY intervention on student behaviors. Outcomes are assessed at pre-test in the fall and post-test in the spring, over the course of the school year.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • General education teachers of core subjects (Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, English/Language Arts).

Treatment and study plan

Second Step + R-CITY

Behavioral

For the Second Step + R-CITY (experimental) condition schools, activities include those in the Second Step Only condition, as well as student lessons designed by the project team, as well as training and individualized support for implementing classroom lessons, five 45-minute professional development sessions, and one-on-one coaching to support teacher practices and the implementation of the 6 classroom lessons.

Other names: R-CITY Intervention

Second Step Only

Behavioral

For the Second Step Only (active comparator) condition schools, activities involve school-wide technical assistance and implementation support for the Second Step program implementation, as well as individualized technical assistance for the Second Step program. In the year following participation, Second Step Only condition schools are offered access to and training and technical support for the classroom lessons.

Primary outcomes

  1. ASSIST Classroom Observations

    Time frame: Post-intervention, within one month following the completion of the intervention.

    The ASSIST is a direct observational measure that assesses the classroom interactions between students and teachers. Observation cycles are 15 minutes and scales include tallied counts of teacher and student behaviors, as well as global ratings of interactions based on a Likert-style scale.

Secondary outcomes

  1. R-CITY Teacher Self-Report Survey

    Time frame: Post-intervention, within one month following the completion of the intervention.

    This survey assesses teachers' cultural competence and self-efficacy. Each item on this scale was scored on a 6-point Likert-type scale where 1 is strongly disagree and 6 is strongly agree.

  2. Suspensions

    Time frame: Post-intervention, within one month following the completion of the intervention.

    School-level student suspensions (publicly reported and accessible).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Virginia

Other

Collaborators

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
  • Sheppard Pratt Health System

Registry information

Official study title

R-CITY: A Collaborative Intervention With Teachers and Youth

Acronym: R-CITY

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2025
Study completion
2026
First posted
Oct 19, 2022
Registry last updated
Jan 12, 2026

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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.

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