Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Northern Arizona University

Code:

NCT06254872

Conditions

Mental Health Wellness 1

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 30

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Peer Mentors

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the impacts of participating in a peer mentor program in a Southwestern Tribal Community. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • In American Indian/Alaska Native communities with unique cultural characteristics, how should a youth-focused sociotechnical behavioral health intervention be designed to encourage sustained engagement and positively impact indicators of behavioral health?;
  • How can interactive technical interventions be designed to best support sustained community engagement in a challenged network environment?

Participants will:

  • Be trained as peer mentors
  • Be trained in how to use the QI App to communicate with mentees
  • Guide daily conversation prompts with a group of 3 mentees via the QI App
  • Provide daily encouragement to mentees to engage with mindfulness activities on the QI App

Conditions

Mental Health Wellness 1

Study ID

NCT06254872

Start date

Jul 31, 2024

Status verified date

Aug, 2024

Completion date

Oct 1, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Oct 1, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 30

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Member of Southwestern Tribal Community
  • Has a smartphone
  • Has access to the Internet with the smartphone at least once per day

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Has not completed GED/High School Diploma

Study Design

Enrollment

4 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Peer Mentors

Participants will be trained in how to be peer mentors to anonymous participants through a smartphone app. Participants will provide daily prompts to their mentees to encourage anonymous discussion in the group chat feature of the smartphone app. Participants will provide daily encouragement to their mentees to use features of the smartphone app to practice mindfulness skills.

Interventions

Peer Mentors

Peer mentors provide daily guidance and encouragement to mentees via smartphone app based on training.

Primary outcome measure

  • To measure the acceptability of the Peer Mentorship Program [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 weeks after starting as a mentor, 12 weeks after starting as a mentor ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Morgan Vigil-Hayes, PhD

9285234863morgan.vigil-hayes@nau.edu

Marissa Adams, MPH

marissa.adams@nau.edu

Locations

Northern Arizona University

Recruiting

Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, 86011

Contacts

Morgan Vigil-Hayes, PhD

9285234863morgan.vigil-hayes@nau.edu

Marissa Adams, MPH

marisa.adams@nau.edu

Principal Investigator:

Morgan Vigil-Hayes, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Northern Arizona University

Last update posted

Jan 23, 2025

Last verified

Aug, 2024

Keywords

  • American Indian / Alaska Native
  • peer mentor

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Northern Arizona University on 2025-01-23.