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: 10400210
• 负责人: John MARK EDDY
• 金额: $ 49.05万
• 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/10400210
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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.

抽象的 该提案寻求资金来研究12。5年，基于关系，专业的影响 指导计划，儿童之友（FOTC）在现有的多站点随机的背景下 对照试验（RCT； FOT​​C与对照）。研究试验（儿童研究）由NIH资助 通过2007 - 2013年的NICHD。该计划继续通过各种外部资金。 自项目开始以来，专业导师（称为“朋友”）一直与年轻人合作​​。 导师接受广泛的培训和学徒制，然后参加正在进行的监督，工作 在小学期间，有8个孩子的典型案件和中学期间的10-12名青年。 在整个计划的过程中，参与该计划的年轻人都与导师和导师互动 与其他青少年成对，成为儿童和青少年和关怀成年人社区的一部分。 据我们所知，没有关于心理计划的出版，严格的结果研究 这具有程序元素的组合。该研究建立在开始的严格研究计划上 在儿童研究期间（Eddy等人，2015年，Eddy等人，2017年），这表明了强烈的采用和 实施FOTC心理模型。此外，在计划开始五年后，这项研究发现 父母关于年轻人行为优势的报告的增长，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；而外部化问题较少 与对照组相比，年轻人随机分配给FOTC的行为。拟议的研究将使参与者参与 干预措施和控制条件都可以进行端线（实际上或估计的高中之后 毕业）和对年轻成年的计划影响的2年随访评估。 该研究使用严格的RCT设计，其中包括对所有活跃参与者的两次评估 儿童研究（n = 259），低收入样本，种族潜水，高风险，城市青年。数据也将是 从护理人员和学校收集，将在终点收集逮捕和法院记录。 FOTC收集的实施数据也将用于分析。年轻的成人调查将是 在2年的随访（大约21岁）进行并逮捕和法院记录收集。使用意图对治疗 分析，这项研究将研究3种主要结果的计划影响 - 避免参与 少年司法，高中毕业或获得GED，并将父母延迟到年轻人 成年，在计划终点和两年后。此外，我们将探索是否假设 增加社会资本的机制介导了干预与结果之间的关系。最后， 我们将研究各种计划参与FOTC与计划影响之间的关系。