Clinical trial NCT02083302: Experimentally Testing the Effectiveness of a Campus-based Bystander Intervention
Official title: Experimentally Testing the Effectiveness of a Campus-based Bystander Intervention
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Assaultive Behavior
Violence
Sexual Assault and Rape
Helping Behavior
Keywords: campus sexual assault
bystander intervention
Lead sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
First posted: 2014-03-11
Enrollment: 4385
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 21
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a bystander intervention education program on college students' attitudes and behaviors associated with bystander intervention and sexual violence.

Detailed description: This study used a randomized control trial, longitudinal design to determine the impact of a peer education theater intervention on undergraduate student attitudes and behaviors related to sexual violence and bystander intervention. Students were assigned to either an experimental group (receiving 3-4 doses of the intervention ) or a comparison group (receiving 1 dose only) and were surveyed six times over an 18 month period.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Incoming first year students in the fall semester of 2010
* Age 18 - 21
* Attended Summer Orientation session

Exclusion Criteria:

* Incoming transfer students
* Younger than 18 or older than 21

Primary outcomes:
measure: Bystander Intentions
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander intentions to up to three months
measure: Bystander Intentions
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander intentions to up to six months
measure: Bystander Intentions
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander intentions to up to eight months
measure: Bystander Intentions
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander intentions to up to fifteen months
measure: Bystander Intentions
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander intentions to up to twenty months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Bystander Friend Norms
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander friend norms to up to three months
measure: Bystander Friend Norms
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander friend norms to up to six months
measure: Bystander Friend Norms
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander friend norms to up to eight months
measure: Bystander Friend Norms
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander friend norms to up to fifteen months
measure: Bystander Friend Norms
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander friend norms to up to twenty months
measure: Bystander Efficacy
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander efficacy to up to three months
measure: Bystander Efficacy
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander efficacy to up to six months
measure: Bystander Efficacy
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander efficacy to up to eight months
measure: Bystander Efficacy
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander efficacy to up to fifteen months
measure: Bystander Efficacy
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander efficacy to up to twenty months
measure: Bystander Behavior
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander behavior to up to three months
measure: Bystander Behavior
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander behavior to up to six months
measure: Bystander Behavior
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander behavior to up to eight months
measure: Bystander Behavior
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander behavior to up to fifteen months
measure: Bystander Behavior
timeFrame: Change from baseline in bystander behavior to up to twenty months
measure: Rape Myth Acceptance
timeFrame: Change from baseline in rape myth acceptance to up to three months
measure: Rape Myth Acceptance
timeFrame: Change from baseline in rape myth acceptance to up to six months
measure: Rape Myth Acceptance
timeFrame: Change from baseline in rape myth acceptance to up to eight months
measure: Rape Myth Acceptance
timeFrame: Change from baseline in rape myth acceptance to up to fifteen months
measure: Rape Myth Acceptance
timeFrame: Change from baseline in rape myth acceptance to up to twenty months
measure: Proclivity to Perpetrate Sexual Violence
timeFrame: Change from baseline in proclivity to perpetrate sexual violence to up to three months
measure: Proclivity to Perpetrate Sexual Violence
timeFrame: Change from baseline in proclivity to perpetrate sexual violence to up to six months
measure: Proclivity to Perpetrate Sexual Violence
timeFrame: Change from baseline in proclivity to perpetrate sexual violence to up to eight months
measure: Proclivity to Perpetrate Sexual Violence
timeFrame: Change from baseline in proclivity to perpetrate sexual violence up to fifteen months
measure: Proclivity to Perpetrate Sexual Violence
timeFrame: Change from baseline in proclivity to perpetrate sexual violence to up to twenty months
measure: Sexual Violence Perpetration
timeFrame: Change from baseline in sexual violence perpetration to up to three months
measure: Sexual Violence Perpetration
timeFrame: Change from baseline in sexual violence perpetration to up to six months
measure: Sexual Violence Perpetration
timeFrame: Change from baseline in sexual violence perpetration to up to eight months
measure: Sexual Violence Perpetration
timeFrame: Change from baseline in sexual violence perpetration to up to fifteen months
measure: Sexual Violence Perpetration
timeFrame: Change from baseline in sexual violence perpetration to up to twenty months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New Brunswick
country: United States
facility: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
state: New Jersey
Study officials:
affiliation: Rutgers University School of Social Work
name: Sarah McMahon, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Rutgers University School of Social Work
name: Judy Postmus, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: McMahon S, Allen CT, Postmus JL, McMahon SM, Peterson NA, Lowe Hoffman M. Measuring bystander attitudes and behavior to prevent sexual violence. J Am Coll Health. 2014;62(1):58-66. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2013.849258.
citation: McMahon, S., Hoffman, M., McMahon, S.M., Zucker, S. & Koenick, R.A. (2013). What Would You Do? Strategies for Bystander Intervention to Prevent Sexual Violence by College Students. Journal of College and Character, 14(2), p.141-152.