Clinical trial NCT03950128: Healthy Relationships Training Study: A Comparison of Interventions to Reduce Dating Violence on College Campuses
Official title: Healthy Relationships Training Study: Comparing the Efficacy of a Mindfulness-Based Skills Training to a Psychoeducational Intervention at Reducing Dating Violence on College Campuses
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Dating Violence
Keywords: Dating aggression
Emotion regulation
Mindfulness
Mindfulness-based skills
Romantic relationships
Dating relationships
Lead sponsor: Kent State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-05-15
Enrollment: 88
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of a mindfulness-based skills training (MBST) to a psychoeducational intervention at reducing dating violence in a sample of college students. The MBST focuses on improving college students' abilities to manage emotionally charged states during conflict with their romantic partners by teaching them mindfulness-based skills. The psychoeducational intervention uses the Love is Not Abuse curriculum. Treatment groups are randomly assigned and are compared using a two-armed parallel design.

88 college students currently in a dating relationship were recruited through Kent State University's subject pool. All participants completed a baseline assessment online where self-reported data was collected on demographics, dating violence (during the past month), emotion regulation, mindfulness skills, and other potential covariates. Participants were then randomized into either the MBST intervention or the psychoeducational intervention. All participants completed three 50-minute sessions over the course of three weeks with assigned homework between sessions. Daily diary data was collected, assessing knowledge and use of skills learned in the sessions. Follow-up data was collected online 11 weeks following baseline (dating violence (during the last month), emotion regulation, mindfulness skills).

It was hypothesized that the MBST intervention would be more effective at reducing dating violence as compared to the psychoeducational intervention.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* In a current dating relationship (of 6 months or longer)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Diagnosed with psychopathology (Major Depressive Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory (CADR; Wolfe et al., 2001)
timeFrame: Baseline (4th week of semester) and Follow-up (11 weeks after baseline)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS; Baer, Smith, & Allen, 2004)
timeFrame: Baseline (4th week of semester) and Follow-up (11 weeks after baseline)
measure: The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, 2004)
timeFrame: Baseline (4th week of semester) and Follow-up (11 weeks after baseline)
measure: 3. Intimate Partner Violence Attitudes Scale-Revised (IPVAS-R; Fincham, Cui, Braithwaite, & Pasley, 2008)
timeFrame: Baseline (4th week of semester) and Follow-up (11 weeks after baseline)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Kent
country: United States
facility: Kent State University
state: Ohio
Study officials:
affiliation: Kent State University
name: Manfred van Dulmen, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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