Clinical trial NCT05225727: Me & You-Tech: A Socio-Ecological Solution to Teen Dating Violence for the Digital Age
Official title: Me & You-Tech: A Socio-Ecological Solution to Teen Dating Violence for the Digital Age
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Adolescent Behavior
Interpersonal Relations
Domestic Violence
Physical Violence
Keywords: adolescent behavior
interpersonal relationships
intimate partner violence
Violence/prevention & control
program evaluation
teen dating violence
programs using technology
Lead sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Radiant Creative Group, LLC
name: University of Texas
First posted: 2022-02-04
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 11
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a multi-level (youth, parent, school) Internet-based dating violence prevention program, 'Me \& You-Tech' (MYT) for 6th-grade middle school students.

Detailed description: The purpose of this three year study is to develop and evaluate Me \& You - Tech, a computer-based healthy relationships and dating violence prevention curriculum for 6th grade students. The curriculum will be developed and adapted from an existing effective healthy relationship curriculum, Me \& You: Building Healthy Relationships. A randomized two-arm design will be conducted among 6th grade students, where students receiving the curriculum were compared to students receiving usual care. Four middle schools participated in the study, 2 schools were randomly assigned to receive the curriculum and two to receive usual care. Outcomes were assessed at baseline, 3 months following completion of the intervention, and 9 months after baseline. Parental permission and student assent were obtained prior to administration of the surveys. The primary hypothesis is that students who receive the curriculum will have significantly lower teen dating violence perpetration than those who do not receive the curriculum.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 6th grade student
* Currently attending a middle school

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previous participation in usability and feasibility testing
* Inability to complete activities
* Inability to read English
* Lack of home internet connectivity

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percent of youth who perpetrated any type of teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who were victimized by any type of teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory
timeFrame: One year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Percent of youth who perpetrated psychological teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who were victimized by psychological teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who perpetrated physical teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who were victimized by physical teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who perpetrated sexual teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who were victimized by sexual teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who perpetrated electronic teen dating violence as indicated measures adapted from Picard and Zweig
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who were victimized by electronic teen dating violence as indicated measures adapted from Picard and Zweig
timeFrame: One year
measure: Mean score reflecting student norms toward violence for boys and girls as indicated byt the Acceptance of Dating Abuse Survey
timeFrame: One year
measure: Mean score for self-efficacy to resolve conflict as indicated by the Teen Conflict Survey
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth reported one or more positive coping strategies as indicated by the Kidcope-Child Survey Form
timeFrame: One year
measure: Mean score of constructive and destructive conflict resolution skills as indicated by valid scales developed by Foshee et al.
timeFrame: One year
measure: Mean score for attitudes towards sexting as indicated by a scale developed by Strassberg et al.
timeFrame: One year
measure: Mean score related to a student's belief in the need for help for dating violence victimization as indicated by measures developed by Foshee et al.
timeFrame: One year
measure: Mean score for perceived peer dating violence perpetration (from the perspective of student) - newly developed
timeFrame: One year
measure: Mean score for parental communication about drugs, sex, and relationships as indicated by measures developed by Tharp et al.
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who indicated social support from source as indicated by measures adapted from the Social Support Rating Scale
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who perpetrated bullying as indicated by measures developed by Wang et al.
timeFrame: One year
measure: Percent of youth who were victimized by bullying as indicated by measures developed from Wang et al.
timeFrame: One year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Texas Houston School of Public Health
name: Melissa Peskin, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Texas Houston School of Public Health
name: Ross Shegog, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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