Bystander Program Effectiveness to Reduce Violence Acceptance: RCT in High Schools

Bystander-based violence prevention interventions have shown efficacy to reduce dating violence and sexual violence acceptance at the individual level yet no large randomized controlled trial (RCT) has evaluated this effect at the high-school level and over time. This rigorous cluster-randomized con...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of family violence 2019-04, Vol.34 (3), p.153-164
Hauptverfasser: Coker, Ann L., Bush, Heather M., Brancato, Candace J., Clear, Emily R., Recktenwald, Eileen A.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Bystander-based violence prevention interventions have shown efficacy to reduce dating violence and sexual violence acceptance at the individual level yet no large randomized controlled trial (RCT) has evaluated this effect at the high-school level and over time. This rigorous cluster-randomized controlled trial addresses this gap by evaluating intervention effectiveness at both school and individual levels. Kentucky high schools were randomized to intervention or control conditions. In intervention schools educators provided school-wide ‘Green Dot’ presentations and bystander training with student popular opinion leaders. Each spring from 2010 to 2014; 73,044 students completed anonymous surveys with no missing data on relevant outcomes. Dating violence and sexual violence acceptance were the primary outcomes for this analysis. At the school level, slopes from linear mixed models using averaged school-level dating violence acceptance (condition–time, p  
ISSN:0885-7482
1573-2851
DOI:10.1007/s10896-018-9961-8