Cadet Healthy Personal Skills Intervention Trial

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new approach to sexual violence prevention by promoting healthy relationships and personal life skills among incoming Air Force cadets at the United States Air Force Academy.

Detailed Description
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National Health Promotion Associates (NHPA) adapted the Botvin Life Skills Training (LST) program for incoming fourth class cadets at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). The resulting adaptation, called Cadet Healthy Personal Skills (CHiPS), provides cadets with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills to enhance their personal resilience, increase their potential for success, help them develop healthy and rewarding personal relationships, and reduce sexual harassment and assault. The CHiPS program includes ten units, spread across three blocks of content, and each block teaches cadets a range of life skills. All incoming fourth class cadets (N=1,203) were invited to participate in this study, beginning in the Summer of 2017, and of those, 1,098 cadets (91.3%) consented to participate in the trial.Twenty-five facilitators were trained to implement the newly adapted CHiPS program. Half of the incoming class [four Basic Cadet Training (BCT) squadrons] was assigned to receive the intervention, while the other half (four BCT squadrons) continued to receive standard trainings already in place at USAFA. All cadets completed a self-report survey at pretest, posttest, and at a 12-month follow-up

Official Title
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Adapting, Developing, And Testing An Evidence-Based Life Skills Training Approach For Sexual Assault Prevention

Conditions
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Sexual Behavior, Skills, Social, Skills, Coping

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Cadet Healthy Personal Skills
* Behavioral: Standard Health Education


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: incoming cadet at USAFA Exclusion Criteria: None

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Interventional Model Description: Half of the squadrons of incoming cadets were randomized to the CHiPS intervention, the other half were randomized to the control condition
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Cadet Healthy Personal Skills<br>Cadet Healthy Personal Skills | Behavioral: Cadet Healthy Personal Skills<br>* 7.5 hour skills training group intervention<br>|
| Active Comparator: Standard Health Education<br>Standard Health Education | Behavioral: Standard Health Education<br>* Standard Health Education<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Self-reported sexual acts without consent | Three survey items assessed whether the participant was kissed or sexually touched without active consent, penetration or oral sex without active consent, or had sexual intercourse without consent and too intoxicated to resist. | Past 1 year |