Multi-College Bystander Efficacy Evaluation

NCT02659423 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: RFA-CE-15-003
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 24
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Bystander interventions, recognized as promising violence prevention strategies, are unique in their engagement of all community members to 1) recognize situations that may become violent and 2) learn to safely and effectively intervene to reduce violence risk. Based on their promise, the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act (SaVE) now requires all publicly-funded colleges to provide bystander intervention. With SaVE's policy intervention requiring bystander interventions, a "natural experiment" has arisen to determine the relative efficacy of students' bystander training across multiple colleges. Investigators propose a quasi-experimental design (using fractional factorials) to evaluate the relative efficacy of three bystander interventions to reduce violence in college communities. Green Dot will be one of three bystander interventions evaluated. A recent rigorous evaluation has found that Green Dot is associated with a 20-40% reduction in VAW in college and high school settings. In aim 1, investigators will compare the relative efficacy of bystander interventions to a) increase bystander efficacy and behaviors, b) reduce violence acceptance, c) reduce interpersonal violence victimization and perpetration, and d) increase program cost effectiveness. The three main bystander groups compared will be: exclusively online training, Green Dot (speeches and intensive bystander training), and other skills-based bystander training. Program efficacy data will be obtained from student surveys, campus crime statistics, and surveys with college staff and administrators responsible for selecting and implementing bystander interventions. In aim 2, investigators seek to grow communities of VAW prevention researchers. Researcher communities will form through researchers' engagement with college recruitment, survey design, data collection and analyses. Specifically investigators will determine the efficacy of this program to increase VAW prevention research productivity defined as a) increasing research skills and b) increasing research communications measured as manuscript submissions, presentations, and publications. This natural experiment will generate new understanding into efficacy of how bystander programs work. This natural experiment will also provide the VAW research community an opportunity to increase our skill-sets and share our experiences with and help grow the next generation of VAW prevention researchers.

Conditions

Sexual Violence

Keywords

Bystanding behaviors; Campus; Prevention; Sexual Assault; CampusSave

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Interpersonal Violence Victimization and Perpetration at the college level using AAU measures of sexual violence, dating violence, sexual harassment and stalking

  Interpersonal Violence defined as sexual violence, partner violence, stalking and sexual harassment

  Up to 60 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Bystander behavior measures at the college level based on of Banyard, Plante & Monynihan bystanding scale

  Up to 60 months

Other Outcomes (2)

• Violence acceptance

  Up to 60 months

• Cost Measures

  Up to 60 months

Study Arms (3)

Green Dot BIC 1

Bystander Intervention Components Clusters will include at least a component of Green Dot. E.g. Comparisons will be made across schools that have Green Dot versus those that don't have Green Dot. (BIC 1)

Behavioral: BIC 1

Online BIC 2

Bystander Intervention Components Clusters will include at least a component of online bystander training. E.g. Comparisons will be made across schools that have online bystander training versus those that do not. (BIC 2)

Behavioral: BIC 2

Alternative programs BIC 3

Bystander Intervention Components Clusters will include at least a component of Green Dot. E.g. Comparisons will be made across schools that have alternative program versus those that do not. (BIC 3)

Behavioral: BIC 3

Interventions

BIC 1 BEHAVIORAL

BIC cluster creation will include policy, implementation and degree of community coverage, specific title mandatory, and exclusively online training.

Green Dot BIC 1

BIC 2 BEHAVIORAL

BIC cluster creation will include policy, implementation and degree of community coverage, specific title mandatory, and exclusively online training.

Online BIC 2

BIC 3 BEHAVIORAL

BIC cluster creation will include policy, implementation and degree of community coverage, specific title mandatory, and exclusively online training.

Alternative programs BIC 3

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 24 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Public universities with junior faculty to be mentored in violence prevention Note: sampling unit for primary analyses is the college: answers to questions below refer to students clustered at each institution

You may qualify if:

• Public universities with junior faculty to be mentored in violence prevention

You may not qualify if:

• Private universities, institutions with less than 10,000 undergraduate students
• Undergraduate students at the public 4 year colleges or universities, ages 18-24
• Graduate or professional students, non-degree seeking or not enrolled

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ann Coker: lead
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky, 40536-0293, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Ann L Coker, PhD

  University of Kentucky

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Heather M Bush, PhD

  University of Kentucky

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: OTHER
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Verizon Wireless Endowed Chair Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology, in the UK College of Public Health

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 11, 2016
• First Posted: January 20, 2016
• Study Start: January 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2019
• Study Completion: December 1, 2020
• Last Updated: March 15, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)