Clinical trial NCT03473067: Community Level Primary Prevention of Dating and Sexual Violence in Middle Schools
Official title: Community Level Primary Prevention of Dating and Sexual Violence in Middle Schools
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Violence
Lead sponsor: Lifespan
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Brown University
First posted: 2018-03-22
Enrollment: 4344
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 10
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Dating and sexual violence are significant public health concerns occurring on a continuum of severity across the lifespan, with serious consequences to victims and society. The present research advances the science of prevention by rigorously evaluating a comprehensive social norms marketing campaign to promote community-level change in dating and sexual violence in middle schools. Partnership between researchers and a CDC Rape Prevention and Education Program (RPE) funded agency is a core feature of this work, and aims to build community capacity to implement and evaluate violence prevention efforts, and promote the subsequent uptake of social norms marketing campaigns as a strategy for reducing dating and sexual violence among youth.

Detailed description: In a group cluster trial, a comprehensive, tailored, data-based social norms marketing campaign that addresses misperceptions of: 1) the acceptability of dating and sexual violence; 2) gender roles; 3) sexual activity; 4) sexual communication/consent; 5) support for victims; and 6) bystander intervention will be evaluated among middle schools. Poster messaging will be paired with several systematic efforts to diffuse program content through the community, including a Lunch and Learn Teacher Training, Social Norms Video, Teacher Workbook, Parent Mailing, and Parent Information Session. A member of the researcher-practitioner team, designated as a School Resource Provider, will oversee campaign implementation in partnership with a teacher champion. The Resource Provider will also track campaign intensity, assess campaign credibility through intercept interviews with teachers and students, work with teachers to infuse messaging into classroom activities, and assist the teacher champion with addressing "kick-back" to the campaign. Outcome assessments will be completed by teachers, administrators and students. Towards the goal of exploring the role of other environmental factors as moderators of program effects, school administrators will assess their community readiness to develop and implement school dating and sexual violence prevention policy, in general, and social norms marketing, in particular. A neighborhood scan will also be conducted to estimate the density of nearby outlets associated with gender-based personal violence.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Student at a middle school or teacher/administrator at a middle school
* Provide student assent and parental consent as specified in protocol or provide adult consent for study participation

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Sexual Violence Victimization
timeFrame: Over 6 months
measure: Dating Violence Victimization
timeFrame: Over 6 months
measure: Sexual Violence Perpetration
timeFrame: Over 6 months
measure: Dating Violence Perpetration
timeFrame: Over 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Bystander Intervention
timeFrame: Over 6 months
measure: Attitudes Towards Violence
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 6 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Teacher Engagement in Bystander Intervention
timeFrame: Over 6 months
measure: Perceptions of Social Norms
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 6 months
Locations:
city: Providence
country: United States
facility: Rhode Island Hospital
state: Rhode Island
Study officials:
affiliation: Rhode Island Hospital
name: Lindsay M. Orchowski, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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