Recruiting

FLARE

Sponsor:

University of Pittsburgh

Code:

NCT07718022

Conditions

Adolescent Relationship Abuse

Sexual and Gender Minorities

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 14+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

FLARE

Resource Guide

Study Details

Brief summary:

This is a pilot clinical trial to test an intervention called FLARE, which is an adolescent relationship abuse prevention program for sexual and gender diverse youth and their trusted adults. FLARE comprises in-person, virtual, and asynchronous programming developed by and for caregivers and adolescents.

Conditions

Adolescent Relationship Abuse

Sexual and Gender Minorities

Study ID

NCT07718022

Start date

Aug 1, 2026

Status verified date

Jul, 2026

Completion date

Jul 1, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 1, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 14+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • SGDY eligibility includes:

1. ages 14 to 18
2. identifies as sexually or gender diverse (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender, or nonbinary)
3. uses English
4. willing to travel to Pittsburgh for 1 in-person event; and
5. can identify a caregiver who can also participate.

Caregivers eligibility includes:

1. age 18 or older;
2. a caregiver of an SGDY ages 14 to 18;
3. uses English;
4. willing to travel to Pittsburgh for 1 in-person event; and
5. has a child participating in this study. Caregivers can include parents or any other person whom the adolescent identifies as a trusted adult in their life. We will only enroll 1 caregiver for each SGDY; because this is a dyadic study each adolescent needs a matched participating caregiver and vice versa.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Does not meet eligibility criteria
  • Incarcerated during the study
  • Unable to provide verbal or REDCap consent or assent

Study Design

Enrollment

108 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: FLARE intervention

FLARE participants will receive the intervention

other: Wait list control

Wait list control participants will be offered the opportunity to participate in the intervention after the investigators have completed the pilot trial

Interventions

FLARE

Adolescent relationship abuse prevention intervention for sexual and gender diverse youth and their trusted adults

Resource Guide

The control group will receive a resource guide and then will be able to receive FLARE after the trial is complete as a wait list control option

Primary outcome measure

  • Acceptability [ Time Frame: T2 (1 month post baseline) ]
  • Trial Feasibility [ Time Frame: T1 (baseline); T2 (1 month post baseline); T3 (3 months post baseline, 2 months post T2) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

University of Pittsburgh

Recruiting

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213

Contacts

More Information

Sponsor

University of Pittsburgh

Last update posted

Aug 10, 2026

Last verified

Jul, 2026

Keywords

  • adolescent relationship abuse
  • parental monitoring
  • intervention
  • sexual and gender diverse youth

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Pittsburgh on 2026-08-10.