A randomized controlled trial of Friends of the Children, a long-term professional mentoring program for adolescents at risk: impacts at post-test and 2 year follow-up

儿童之友的一项随机对照试验，这是一项针对高危青少年的长期专业指导计划：测试后和 2 年随访的影响

• 批准号: 10616689
• 负责人: John MARK EDDY
• 金额: $ 47.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10616689
• 关键词: 12 year old; 21 year old; Achievement; Adolescent; Adoption; Adult; Age; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Boston; Caregivers; Caring; Child; Cities; Collection; Communities; Data; Data Collection; Development; Dose; Elements; Eligibility Determination; Enrollment; Family; Foundations; Friends; Funding; Future; Grant; Growth; Individual; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Investigation; Justice; Length; Life Style; Location; Low income; Measures; Mediating; Mentors; Modeling; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Neighborhoods; New York City; Oregon; Outcome; Outcome Study; Parents; Participant; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Play; Pregnancy; Preventive; Privatization; Problem behavior; Program Evaluation; Public Health; Publishing; Randomized; Randomized, Controlled Trials; Records; Reduce health disparities; Reporting; Research; Risk; Role; Sampling; School Drop-Outs; Schools; Services; Site; Social Network; Student Dropouts; Supervision; Surveys; Testing; Time; Training; United States National Institutes of Health; Wood material; Work; Youth; anti social; apprenticeship; comparison control; court; deviant; dosage; elementary school; ethnic diversity; ethnic minority; first grade; follow-up; girls; graduate school; high risk population; high school; interest; intervention cost; intervention participants; junior high school; juvenile justice system; kindergarten; neighborhood disadvantage; prevent; preventive intervention; primary outcome; programs; psychosocial; racial minority; recruit; research and development; social capital; socioeconomic disadvantage; success; trial design; urban setting; willingness; young adult

Abstract This proposal seeks funding to examine the impact of a 12.5-year long, relationship-based, professional mentoring program, Friends of the Children (FOTC) within the context of an existing multi-site randomized controlled trial (RCT; FOTC versus control). The research trial (The Child Study) was funded by the NIH through the NICHD from 2007-2013. The program has continued through a variety of external funders. Professional mentors (called “Friends”) have continued working with the youth since the project began. Mentors receive extensive training and apprenticeship, and then participate in ongoing supervision, working with a typical caseload of 8 children during elementary school and 10-12 youth during middle and high school. Across the course of the program, youth involved in the program have interacted both with their mentors and with other youth-mentor pairs, becoming part of a community of children and adolescents and caring adults. To the best of our knowledge, there are no published, rigorous outcome studies of a mentoring program that has this combination of program elements. The study is built on the rigorous research program that began during The Child Study (Eddy, et al. 2015, Eddy et al., 2017), which demonstrated the strong adoption and implementation of the FOTC mentoring model. Further, 5 years after the program began, this study found growth in parent’s report of the youth’s behavioral strengths, as measured by increased family involvement, interpersonal strengths and school functioning; positive school behavior; and less externalizing problem behavior in youth randomized to FOTC compared to controls. The proposed study will reengage participants in both intervention and control conditions to conduct end-line (just after actual or estimated high school graduation) and 2-year follow-up evaluations of program impact into young adulthood. The study uses a rigorous RCT design that includes two assessments of all of the active participants in The Child Study (N = 259), a sample of low income, ethnically diverse, at-risk, urban youth. Data will also be collected from caregivers and school, arrest and court records will be collected at the end point. Implementation data collected by FOTC will also be used in the analysis. Young adult surveys will be conducted and arrest and court records collection at the 2-year follow-up (about age 21). Using intent-to-treat analyses, this study will examine program impacts in 3 primary outcomes -- avoidance of involvement in juvenile justice, graduation from high school or obtaining a GED, and delaying parenthood into young adulthood, at the program end point and 2 years later. Further, we will explore whether hypothesized mechanisms of increased social capital mediates the relationships between intervention and outcomes. Finally, we will examine the relationship between various levels of program involvement in FOTC and program impact.

摘要 这项提案寻求资金，以检查长达12.5年的、基于关系的、专业的 导师计划，儿童之友(FOTC)在现有的多站点随机背景下 对照试验(RCT；FOTC与对照)。这项研究试验(儿童研究)由美国国立卫生研究院资助 2007年至2013年通过NICHD。该方案通过各种外部资助者继续实施。 自该项目开始以来，专业导师(称为“朋友”)一直在为这些青年工作。 导师接受广泛的培训和学徒培训，然后参与持续的监督、工作 典型的案例是小学有8名儿童，初中和高中有10到12名青少年。 在整个计划过程中，参与计划的青少年与他们的导师和 与其他青年导师配对，成为儿童和青少年以及关爱成年人社区的一部分。 据我们所知，目前还没有关于指导计划的已发表的、严格的结果研究 它具有这种程序元素的组合。这项研究是建立在开始的严格的研究计划之上的 在儿童研究期间(Eddy等人2015年，Eddy等人，2017年)，这表明了强劲的采用率和 FOTC指导模式的实施。此外，在该项目开始5年后，这项研究发现 父母对青少年行为能力的报告增长，通过增加家庭参与来衡量， 人际优势和学校功能；积极的学校行为；较少的外化问题 与对照组相比，青年中的行为被随机分为FOTC组。拟议的研究将使参与者重新参与 干预和控制条件均为终止线(实际或估计高中毕业后 毕业)和为期两年的对该项目影响的跟踪评估。 这项研究使用了严格的随机对照试验设计，包括对所有活跃参与者的两次评估 儿童研究(N=259)，一个低收入、种族多样化、处于危险之中的城市青年的样本。数据也将 从照顾者和学校收集的逮捕和法庭记录将在结束时收集。 FOTC收集的执行数据也将用于分析。年轻人的调查将是 在2年的随访中(大约21岁)进行并逮捕和收集法庭记录。使用意向治疗 分析，这项研究将检查项目对3个主要结果的影响--避免卷入 少年司法，高中毕业或获得普通教育证书，以及将为人父母的时间推迟到年轻 成年，在节目结束时，两年后。进一步，我们将探索假设是否 社会资本增加的机制在干预和结果之间的关系中起中介作用。最后， 我们将研究FOTC中不同级别的计划参与与计划影响之间的关系。