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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04281966




Registration number
NCT04281966
Ethics application status
Date submitted
20/02/2020
Date registered
24/02/2020
Date last updated
9/03/2020

Titles & IDs
Public title
Testing the Efficacy of the Ability School Engagement Partnership Program (ASEP)
Scientific title
Testing the Efficacy of the Ability School Engagement Partnership Program (ASEP)
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
2019002851
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
ASEP
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
School Attendance 0 0
Welfare Dependence 0 0
Antisocial Behavior 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Mental Health 0 0 0 0
Psychosis and personality disorders

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
BEHAVIORAL - Ability School Engagement Program Conference

Experimental: Experiment - For young people from schools randomly assigned to the experimental ASEP condition will participate in the ASEP intervention. The ASEP intervention is a Third-Party Policing partnership that involves a partnership between police and school, an ASEP conference and follow up which is organized and led by a conference facilitator with the young person, their parent (or guardian), a school representative (e.g., teacher), and a uniformed school-based police officer. The police and school representatives will be trained by the facilitator to utilize procedurally just dialogue during the entirety of the conference. The ASEP conference script will utilize a procedurally just dialogue to increase both the young person and their parents' perceptions and knowledge of the legitimacy of the truancy laws, police, and schools in order to gain willing compliance to follow the rules.

No intervention: Control - Participants allocated to the control condition will be given the "business-as-usual' approach to handling school non-attendance. The control participants will be sanctioned in the usual manner for engaging in truancy through the requirements denoted in the Queensland Education (General Provisions) Act (2006).


BEHAVIORAL: Ability School Engagement Program Conference
The ASEP conference focuses on understanding the reasons behind why the young person is not attending school regularly, understand how the young person's non-attendance affects other conference participants, highlight the legal consequences of parents and/or guardians to ensure that their child attends school, and the development of a young person-centered Action Plan, which will specifically detail the "actions" that all parties are to take over the next three months to ensure that the young person re-engages with school and/or transitions into paid work.
Intervention code [1] 0 0
BEHAVIORAL
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
Official School Absences
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Six-Months Post-Intervention
Primary outcome [2] 0 0
Official Arrest Records
Timepoint [2] 0 0
Six-Months Post Intervention
Primary outcome [3] 0 0
Perceptions of School Legitimacy
Timepoint [3] 0 0
Two-months post intervention
Primary outcome [4] 0 0
Perceptions of School Procedural Justice
Timepoint [4] 0 0
Two-months post intervention
Primary outcome [5] 0 0
Perceptions of Police Legitimacy
Timepoint [5] 0 0
Two-months post intervention
Primary outcome [6] 0 0
Perceptions of Police Procedural Justice
Timepoint [6] 0 0
Two-months post intervention
Primary outcome [7] 0 0
Perceptions of Family Legitimacy
Timepoint [7] 0 0
Two-months post intervention
Primary outcome [8] 0 0
Perceptions of Family Procedural Justice
Timepoint [8] 0 0
Two-months post intervention
Primary outcome [9] 0 0
General Well-being
Timepoint [9] 0 0
Two-months post intervention
Primary outcome [10] 0 0
Self-efficacy
Timepoint [10] 0 0
Two-months post intervention

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* High school aged young people only, aged 12 to 16;
* Have 15% or more unexplained absences over each other previous two school terms;
* Have no known legitimate explanation for absences (e.g., ongoing medical issue); and
* Have at least one responsibly adult in their lives (e.g., parent, guardian, or carer) who provides social and/or financial support.
Minimum age
12 Years
Maximum age
16 Years
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
Yes
Key exclusion criteria
* None

Study design
Purpose of the study
Prevention
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
NA
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
UNKNOWN
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
21/06/2019
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
30/11/2021
Actual
Sample size
Target
753
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
QLD
Recruitment hospital [1] 0 0
The University of Queensland - Brisbane
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
4072 - Brisbane

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
The University of Queensland
Address
Country
Other collaborator category [1] 0 0
Other
Name [1] 0 0
Restorative Outcomes Australia
Address [1] 0 0
Country [1] 0 0
Other collaborator category [2] 0 0
Other
Name [2] 0 0
Department of Education, Queensland
Address [2] 0 0
Country [2] 0 0
Other collaborator category [3] 0 0
Other
Name [3] 0 0
Queensland Police Service
Address [3] 0 0
Country [3] 0 0
Other collaborator category [4] 0 0
Other
Name [4] 0 0
Australian Department of Social Services
Address [4] 0 0
Country [4] 0 0

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
Trial website
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Lorraine Mazerolle, Ph.D.
Address 0 0
The University of Queensland
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Lorraine Mazerolle, Ph.D.
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
+61 7 334 67877
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
l.mazerolle@uq.edu.au
Contact person for scientific queries

No information has been provided regarding IPD availability


What supporting documents are/will be available?

No Supporting Document Provided



Results publications and other study-related documents

No documents have been uploaded by study researchers.

Results not provided in https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04281966