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

University of Rochester45 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Stress

Interventions

Mindfulness based stress reductionBEHAVIORAL

an 8 week group intervention to teach mindfulness skills

only pre and post evaluation measuresBEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 14 YearsMax age: 21 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

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

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.

Time frame: Baseline and week 10

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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