Health and Resilience Projects: Foundations

Description

The Health and Resilience Project (HARP): Foundations is investigating the efficacy of the Strong African American Families (SAAF) intervention in promoting the health and well being of African American adolescents. Youth age 10-13 and their primary caregivers are randomly assigned to receive SAAF or to a control group. Participants complete baseline and follow-up measures regarding vulnerability to substance use based on a neuroimmune model of stress coping.

Conditions

Substance Use

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Study overview

The Health and Resilience Project (HARP): Foundations is investigating the efficacy of the Strong African American Families (SAAF) intervention in promoting the health and well being of African American adolescents. Youth age 10-13 and their primary caregivers are randomly assigned to receive SAAF or to a control group. Participants complete baseline and follow-up measures regarding vulnerability to substance use based on a neuroimmune model of stress coping.

Can Family-Centered Prevention Programming Reduce Neuroimmune Vulnerabilities for Drug Use and Cardiometabolic Risk Among African American Adolescents? A Randomized Prevention Trial

Health and Resilience Projects: Foundations

Condition
Substance Use
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Athens

Center for Family Research, Athens, Georgia, United States, 30602

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

For general information about clinical research, read Learn About Studies.

Eligibility Criteria

  • * Self reported African American or Black;
  • * Age 10-13
  • * Primary caregiver for youth,
  • * Resides in same household as youth.
  • * Contraindications for MRI scanning (e.g., metal in body, traumatic brain injury, claustrophobia, pregnancy),
  • * Youth with chronic illnesses or medication regimens that would affect inflammatory panels (e.g., diabetes, congenital heart disease, asthma, cancers).
  • * Conditions (e.g., severe disability, psychoses) that would prevent participation in the SAAF intervention or completing self-report measures.

Ages Eligible for Study

10 Years to 13 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Georgia,

Gene H Brody, Ph.D., PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Georgia

Study Record Dates

2027-12-31