STOP-sexual violence: evaluation of a community-based nightlife worker awareness raising bystander training programme

Background Preventing sexual violence in nightlife environments is a pervasive issue across many countries. This study explored the associated impact of a nightlife worker sexual violence awareness raising/bystander training programme (STOP-SV) on trainees’ sexual violence myth acceptance and readin...

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Veröffentlicht in:European journal of public health 2021-06, Vol.31 (3), p.659-664
Hauptverfasser: Quigg, Zara, Bellis, Mark A, Hughes, Karen, Kulhanek, Adam, Brito, Irma, Ross-Houle, Kim, Bigland, Charlotte, Calafat, Amador, Duch, Mariàngels
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Zusammenfassung:Background Preventing sexual violence in nightlife environments is a pervasive issue across many countries. This study explored the associated impact of a nightlife worker sexual violence awareness raising/bystander training programme (STOP-SV) on trainees’ sexual violence myth acceptance and readiness and confidence to intervene. Methods : Pre- and post-test (n = 118), and 3-month follow-up (n = 38) trainee surveys were implemented across three countries (Czech Republic, Portugal and Spain). Paired-sample tests examined changes across time-periods in participants’ myth acceptance (e.g. unwanted sexual advances are a normal part of a night out), and readiness and confidence to intervene. Multi-nominal regression was used to examine the relationship between the change in pre-to-post-training scores and trainee characteristics. Results Compared to pre-training, post-training participants were significantly (P 
ISSN:1101-1262
1464-360X
DOI:10.1093/eurpub/ckaa245