Trial reportJournal of community psychology2018
LET's CONNECT community mentorship program for youths with peer social problems: Preliminary findings from a randomized effectiveness trial.
Trial report in Journal of community psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Social Inclusion Interventions for Anxiety and Depression among Adolescents: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Twenty-six years of psychosocial interventions to reduce suicide risk in adolescents: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Methods and efficacy of social support interventions in preventing suicide: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Evidence-based mental health · 2022Pooled it
- Loneliness as an active ingredient in preventing or alleviating youth anxiety and depression: a critical interpretative synthesis incorporating principles from rapid realist reviews.Translational psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Youth Initiated Mentoring: A Meta-analytic Study of a Hybrid Approach to Youth Mentoring.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2021Pooled it
- Rapid Systematic Review: The Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in the Context of COVID-19.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- LET's CONNECT Community Mentorship Program for Adolescents with Peer Social Problems: A Randomized Intervention Trial.American journal of community psychology · 2021Trial
- Mentoring in Hospital Settings: A Systematic Review of Guidance, Care, and Professional Development.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Development of an Intervention for Managing Adolescent Anxiety Using Community-Based Participatory Methods: Protocol.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- The SHIELD Framework: Advancing Strength-Based Resilience Strategies to Combat Bullying and Cyberbullying in Youth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Sources of strength: a process evaluation of a university-high school partnership to promote mental health protective factors.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Trajectories of childhood social isolation in a nationally representative cohort: Associations with antecedents and early adulthood outcomes.JCPP advances · 2022Article
- Someone to talk to: the association of mentorship and cyberbullying with suicidality among US high school students.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
- Using Mixed Methods to Identify the Primary Mental Health Problems and Needs of Children, Adolescents, and Their Caregivers during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic.Child psychiatry and human development · 2021Article
- The Role of a Mentorship Program on the Relationship between Neglect and Depression among Adolescents in Low-Income Families.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study examined the effectiveness of LET's CONNECT (LC), a community mentorship program for youths who report peer social problems, which is based on a positive youth development framework. Participants were 218 youths (66.5% girls), aged 12 to 15 years, who were recruited from an urban medical emergency department and screened positive for bullying victimization, bullying perpetration, and/or low social connectedness. Youths were randomized to LC (n = 106) or the control condition (n = 112). Six-month outcomes were assessed with self-report measures of youth social connectedness, community connectedness, thwarted belongingness, depression, self-esteem, and suicidal ideation. LC was associated with a significant increase in only one of these outcomes, social connectedness (effect size = 0.4). It was associated consistently with trend-level positive changes for thwarted belongingness (decreased), depression (decreased), community connectedness, and self-esteem (effect sizes = 0.2). There was no effect on suicidal ideation (effect size = 0.0), and although not a primary outcome, eight youths in the LC condition and seven youths in the control condition engaged in suicidal behavior between baseline and follow-up. Although LC effect sizes are consistent with those from previous studies of community mentorship, there were multiple challenges to LC implementation that affected dosage and intervention fidelity, and that may account for the lack of stronger positive effects.
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