Lakota Family Acceptance Project for 2SLGBTQ+ Youth
This study, called the Lakota Family Acceptance Project, is testing a program called Tiwahe Tewichaglapi ("The Family Loves Them"). This program is designed to help Lakota caregivers better support and accept their Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and other (2SLGBTQ+) youth. We want to see if this program can help reduce feelings of sadness (depression), worry (anxiety), and thoughts of self-harm (suicidality) in both youth and their caregivers. We are looking for 28 Indigenous 2SLGBTQ+ youth, aged 13-18, who speak English and feel their family might not fully accept them, along with their caregivers. This is an early study to make sure the program is helpful and safe.
- Study design
- This is an open pilot trial, meaning everyone knows what treatment they are receiving. It plans to enroll 28 participants to test the program's acceptability, feasibility, and safety.
- What's involved
- If you join, you will complete a survey at the beginning. Then, you will participate in an 8-session group program, with sessions held once a week for eight weeks, each lasting two hours.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your suicidality, depression, and anxiety will be measured at the start of the study and again within one week after the program ends.
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Lakota Family Acceptance Project
At a glance
Conditions
NCT07326748
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 2 sites. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
He Sapa New Life Wesleyan Church
Rapid City, South Dakotano site contact published
Wahwala Iyohlogya/Peaceful Means
Pine Ridge, South Dakotano site contact published
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Katie Edwards, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of Michigan
Who to contact
This trial hasn't published a contact. View it on ClinicalTrials.gov
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What this trial measures
- Suicidality (Youth and Caregivers)Past month at pre-test (enrollment) and post-test (within 1 week of intervention conclusion).
Participant responses to items from the Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale to measure suicide and life-threatening behavior in the past month. The 5-item scale includes likert response options ranging from 0 = Never to 10 = Always with higher scores indicating severity of suicidal ideation.
- Depression (Youth and Caregivers)Past 2 weeks at pre-test (enrollment) and post-test (within 1 week of intervention conclusion).
Participant responses to depressive symptoms in the past two weeks using items from the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). The 9-item scale includes likert options ranging from 0 = Not at all to 3 = Nearly every day. Higher scores indicate more depressive symptoms.
- Anxiety (Youth and Caregivers)Past 2 weeks at pre-test (enrollment) and post-test (within 1 week of intervention conclusion).
Participant responses to items from the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) to measure anxiety symptoms in the past two weeks. The 7-item scale includes likert response options ranging from 0 = not at all to 3 = Nearly every day. Higher scores indicate greater anxiety severity.