Clinical trial NCT03411564: Lights, Camera and Action Against Dating Violence (Lights4Violence)
Official title: Lights, Camera and Action Against Dating Violence!
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Violence in Adolescence
Keywords: dating violence
health promotion
educational intervention
health assets
participation action research
Lead sponsor: University of Alicante
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: European Commission
First posted: 2018-01-26
Enrollment: 1555
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Longitudinal quasi-experimental educational intervention study. The evaluation will be carried out using an on-line questionnaire distributed to an intervention and a control groups at two time periods: before starting the program (Baseline, time 0 or T0), after finishing the study - including the dissemination phase - (time 1 or T1). In addition, a process evaluation will be carried out with the intervention group.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Lights4Violence aims to promote adolescents' capabilities to improve their intimate relationships with peers through different participation approach activities. In order to do that, it is planned to perform a longitudinal quasi-experimental educational intervention study with a quantitative evaluation in 5 different cities: Alicante (Spain), Cardiff (UK), Porto (Portugal), Iasi (Romania) and Lublin (Poland) between 2018 and 2019.

Detailed description: DESIGN: Longitudinal quasi-experimental educational intervention study with a quantitative evaluation.

PILOT STUDY (June - July of 2018): Prior to the implementation of the program in the whole sample, an evaluation pilot study will be carried out with a minimum of 20 adolescents (10 boys and 10 girls) who are finishing the same grade as those who will later receive the intervention in August-September 2018. This pilot study focuses on:

* Determining the competencies and capacities of the participants to carry out the on-line questionnaire.
* Calculating the time it takes the students to complete the questionnaire
* Carrying out an internal validation of the questionnaire (that is, are there different responses to similar questions?) among the study population by calculating internal consistency and validity indices.

The obtained results will be shared among the members of the consortium in order to evaluate possible adaptations considered necessary.

PARTICIPANTS: Two groups of students will be assigned either an intervention or control condition, respectively. The intervention group will be composed of boys and girls aged 13 years or more, studying in secondary schools in the city. The control group will be made up of students from other centers with similar socioeconomic characteristics (relating to social characteristics and school location) to the centers. The evaluation survey will be given to a total of 300 students per country, 120 to 150 from the intervention group and 150 from the control group.

The schools selection will be carried out by contacting different secondary education centers from the city as considered appropriate by the members of the research team (non-random sample). The program contents will be presented and the possibility to participate will be offered. The intervention group will be selected from among the students whose centers accept participation in the study. The control group will be made up of students from secondary education centers with social characteristics similar to the centers that will be implement the intervention. The students from the control and the intervention groups will have the same composition in terms of age, sex and academic course. It is recommended that the control and intervention groups belong to different educational centers in order to avoid contamination. It should be mentioned that this is a wait-list control study, that is, those centers that participate in the project as a part of the control group should be offered the possibility of participating in teacher training, access to guides and manuals generated by the project as well as carrying out the intervention in the future (i.e., when the intervention is finished in the intervention group) with Lights4Violence researchers' support if the participants consider it necessary and the research team have the capacity to do it.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Boys and girls aged 13 to 17 years, studying in the targeted secondary schools in each city.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Students with language barriers

Primary outcomes:
measure: Attitudes against sexism
timeFrame: 1-6 months after the intervention
measure: Level of Aggression
timeFrame: 1-6 months after the intervention
measure: Intolerance towards intimate partner violence
timeFrame: 1-6 months after the intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Problem Solving capacity
timeFrame: 1-6 months after the intervention
measure: Interpersonal reactivity
timeFrame: 1-6 months after the intervention
measure: Self-esteem
timeFrame: 1-6 months after the intervention
measure: Assertiveness
timeFrame: 1-6 months after the intervention
Other outcomes:
measure: Subjective happiness
timeFrame: 1-6 months after the intervention
Locations:
city: Alicante
country: Spain
facility: University of Alicante
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Alicante
name: Carmen Vives-Cases, Dr
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Sanz-Barbero B, Ayala A, Ieracitano F, Rodriguez-Blazquez C, Bowes N, De Claire K, Mocanu V, Anton-Paduraru DT, Sanchez-SanSegundo M, Albaladejo-Blazquez N, das Neves ASA, da Silva Queiros AS, Jankowiak B, Waszynska K, Vives-Cases C. Effect of the Lights4Violence intervention on the sexism of adolescents in European countries. BMC Public Health. 2022 Mar 19;22(1):547. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-12925-3.
citation: Vives-Cases C, Sanz-Barbero B, Ayala A, Perez-Martinez V, Sanchez-SanSegundo M, Jaskulska S, Antunes das Neves AS, Forjaz MJ, Pyzalski J, Bowes N, Costa D, Waszynska K, Jankowiak B, Mocanu V, Davo-Blanes MC. Dating Violence Victimization among Adolescents in Europe: Baseline Results from the Lights4Violence Project. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Feb 3;18(4):1414. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18041414.
citation: Vives-Cases C, Davo-Blanes MC, Ferrer-Cascales R, Sanz-Barbero B, Albaladejo-Blazquez N, Sanchez-San Segundo M, Lillo-Crespo M, Bowes N, Neves S, Mocanu V, Carausu EM, Pyzalski J, Forjaz MJ, Chmura-Rutkowska I, Vieira CP, Corradi C. Lights4Violence: a quasi-experimental educational intervention in six European countries to promote positive relationships among adolescents. BMC Public Health. 2019 Apr 8;19(1):389. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6726-0.