Actively Recruiting
School Violence Exposure as an Adverse Childhood Experience
Led by Teachers College, Columbia University · Updated on 2025-09-16
2500
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
83 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
T
Teachers College, Columbia University
Lead Sponsor
C
Columbia University
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This study hypothesize that school safety strategies may contribute to poor mental health and distress among various school populations and proposes the following research questions to be answered through this study: 1. Is there a significant difference in the prevalence of mental health outcomes, perceived school safety, and academic engagement between early adolescent and adolescent students (grades 6 - 12) at schools that have experienced a school shooting and those that have not? 2. Are existing interventions to promote school safety and security associated with poor mental health outcomes among students and school staff? 3. Does the strength of this association between school safety interventions and mental health outcomes differ among students and teachers in those schools who have experienced a school shooting versus among students and teachers in those schools who never experienced a school shooting? And, among our sample of students, are these associations moderated by their ACE history? Participants will be asked to self-report data on their mental health and wellness, and perceived school safety through a survey. Researchers will compare the surveys from the participants from exposure schools (those who experienced a gun shooting incident) with surveys from the participants from non-exposure schools (those who have not experienced a gun shooting incident)
CONDITIONS
Official Title
School Violence Exposure as an Adverse Childhood Experience
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- The school must consent to participate in the study.
- For exposure schools: Must have experienced a gun shooting incident between 1/1/2015 and 12/31/2022.
- For non-exposure schools: No gun shooting incident between 1/1/2011 and 12/31/2022.
- The school must have students in middle through grade 12.
- For exposure schools: At least one grade that experienced the shooting should still be studying at the school.
- For non-exposure schools: Must have the same grade levels as the paired exposure school and none exposed to gun shooting.
- The school must be a public school.
- Principals must be the current principal of the participating school.
- Teachers must be current teachers at the participating school.
- Students must be current students studying in grades 6-12 at the participating school.
You will not qualify if you...
- Non-public schools such as private, charter, or parochial schools are not eligible.
- Schools outside the middle to grade 12 range (e.g., daycares, only elementary, preschools, and universities) are not eligible.
- Incidents where a gun was displayed but no shot was fired, or where a shot was fired by police or security officer, are excluded from exposure schools.
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, New York, United States, 10027
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
S
Sonali Rajan
CONTACT
C
Charles Branas
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Masking
N/A
Allocation
N/A
Model
N/A
Primary Purpose
N/A
Number of Arms
2
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