Empowering Youth With School Discipline Referrals as Peer Coaches
This study is testing a program called Peer Coach Training (PCT) for middle school students (ages 10-15) who have received at least one school discipline referral. PCT is a behavioral intervention that focuses on building strengths and teaching students how to help their peers. The goal is to see if training these students to be peer coaches can reduce disruptive behaviors and improve their engagement in school. The study will measure changes in behavior using checklists and questionnaires at the start, after 3 months, and after 8 months. The study is currently unclear about its recruitment status and plans to enroll 150 participants.
- Study design
- This study is an interventional, cluster randomized trial across ten middle schools, involving 150 youth. Some schools will receive Peer Coach Training (PCT) immediately, while others will receive it later.
- What's involved
- You would participate in a 6-7 session behavioral intervention. Your behavior and strengths would be assessed at the beginning, after 3 months, and after 8 months.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your progress will be followed for 8 months after the initial assessment.
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Empowering Youth With School Discipline Referrals as Peer Coaches
At a glance
Conditions
NCT07515742
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, Californiastudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
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What this trial measures
- Behavioral Problem ChecklistBaseline assessment, 3 months after baseline assessment, 8 months after baseline assessment
12-item self-report questionnaire that assesses youth behavioral problems
- Strengths and Difficulties QuestionnaireBaseline assessment, 3 months after baseline assessment, 8 months after baseline assessment
25-item self-report questionnaire that assesses youth emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems, and prosocial behavior, along with additional questions related to functioning
- Teacher Disruptive Behavior Disorders Rating ScaleBaseline assessment, 3 months after baseline assessment, 8 months after baseline assessment
45-item self-report questionnaire that assesses symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder
- School archival data of youth behavior and disciplineBaseline assessment, 3 months after baseline assessment, 8 months after baseline assessment
School archival records of behavioral and disciplinary outcomes such as the number of disciplinary referrals and citations, as well as suspensions and exclusions