DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38324
title: A Novel Trauma-Informed Screening Approach for Teen Dating Violence Perpetration in Racially Diverse Adolescents: A Multi-Site Study, Houston, Texas, and Champaign, Illinois, 2019-2021
title: Archival Version

description: Teen dating violence (TDV) is an increasing criminal justice and public health issue. Due to these startling trends, federal agencies have called for increased prevention programming for this pattern of violence. In response, the proposed study tests whether a trauma-informed risk algorithm, based on modifiable risk and protective factors, can properly forecast TDV-perpetration risk in diverse adolescent samples. High school students in Texas (N=507) and adolescents participating in a juvenile diversion program in Illinois (N=77) completed surveys at baseline, 6-months, and 12-months. Surveys measured TDV-perpetration and other violent behavior, childhood adversities, individual risk factors for TDV-perpetration, and interpersonal and culturally-relevant protective factors. A novel analytic plan involving latent growth curve modeling and evidence-based medicine (EBM) was used to contextualize each risk factor's relation to TDV-perpetration and how these findings into an empirically-based decision-making tool.
description: The goal of the present study was to identify dynamic risks and strengths linked with TDV-perpetration that were grounded in a developmental trauma framework and valid across adolescents' diverse identities, as well as school and juvenile justice settings.
description: Three large urban schools in southeast Texas were the primary recruitment locations for this study (N=507). To maximize the ability to develop trauma-focused algorithms for adolescent violent behavior, the study also recruited 77 adolescents involved with the Juvenile Justice System (JJS) from a small city in Illinois. Recruitment efforts across the school and JJS-involved sample were similar. For the school sample, study personnel introduced the study to students. If interested, students brought home a description of the study and a consent form for caregivers to sign. For the JJS-involved sample, adolescents were either referred by a case manager at a juvenile diversion program or were recruited from a community event that the JJS diversion program attended. If an adolescent presented alone to these events, a consent to contact form was signed by the adolescent and a member of the study team reached out to a caregiver to explain the study. If interested in participating, caregivers attended the baseline session with the adolescent to sign the consent form and have any additional questions answered by a member of the study team. Once parental consent was obtained, procedures across the two sites were similar. Adolescents provided assent prior to taking a 45-minute survey on demographics, life events, mental health, and interpersonal relationships.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: VIP All Waves Data
DS2: VIP Baseline Data
DS3: VIP Wave 2 Data
DS4: VIP Wave 3 Data
description: Adolescents (aged 13-17) at baseline. Adolescents were recruited from both a school setting as well as a juvenile justice system diversion program.
description: on-site questionnaire; web-based survey