Preventing Sexual Violence Through a Comprehensive, Peer-led Initiative

NCT03207386 | Completed Results

• 1 other identifier: UNH-03-6594&6603-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 2,647
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this multiple baseline study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive youth-led sexual violence (SV) prevention program, Youth Voices in Prevention (Youth VIP). The prevention program builds on youth-adult partnerships among middle and high school students in Rapid City, South Dakota. Consenting students will take part in a youth summit where they will be trained as popular opinion leaders to spread SV prevention messages among middle and high school youth and parents. Following the summit, youth will work in small groups focused on different aspects of evidence-based prevention strategies including bystander intervention, social marketing messaging, parent education, norms change, and social emotional learning. Multiple research methods will be used to examine implementation process and cost. In addition, consenting students will take six surveys across three years including several surveys before programming begins, and several to document Youth VIP outcomes after prevention programming takes place. Survey data from a demographically similar community will be used to assess changes over time among youth in Rapid City, SD. All phases of the project will be implemented with collaboration from a Research Programming Advisory Board of community members and professionals from Rapid City, SD.

Conditions

Sexual Violence

Keywords

Sexual Violence; Prevention; Mixed-Methods; Outcome Evaluation; Process Evaluation; Adolescence

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Number of Participants Reporting Any Form of Sexual Violence Perpetration

  We used several measures to assess for a wide range of interpersonal violence victimization perpetration experiences during the past six months, all with response options 1 = yes or 0 = no. Outcome counts indicate number of participants who reported yes to any form of sexual violence perpetration. We used mirror items to assess for both victimization and perpetration experiences. Three items assessing sexual assault were drawn from Cook-Craig et al.'s (2014) measure that assessed for sexual coercion, physically-forced sex, and incapacitated sex. Five items from the YRBS were used to assess physically forced sexual contact, sexual dating violence, physical dating violence, bullying on school property, and electronic bullying (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). We used three items from the American Association of University Women (2001) to assess homophobic teasing, sexual harassment, and sexual rumors. Lastly, two items assessed homophobic bullying and racial bullying.

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Number of Participants Reporting Any Form of Sexual Violence Victimization

  6 months

Study Arms (1)

Youth VIP

EXPERIMENTAL

Youth VIP is a youth-led set of prevention strategies. Youth and their adult mentors are trained in evidence based sexual assault primary prevention strategies at a three day youth summit. The summit is followed by participation in working groups in which youth and their adult mentors will adapt best practices for sexual assault prevention to the Rapid City community and diffuse these strategies through both their own social networks and more formally in work in Rapid City middle and high schools.

Behavioral: Youth VIP

Interventions

Youth VIP BEHAVIORAL

Youth VIP involves youth in partnerships with adults to adapt evidence based sexual violence prevention strategies for the local community environment. Youth VIP includes a three day intensive youth summit for prevention training and ongoing youth-adult prevention working groups.

Youth VIP

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Years - 90 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Must be able to complete online survey independently
• Must be a student in the Rapid City community.

You may not qualify if:

• None

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of New Hampshire: lead
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of New Hampshire

Durham, New Hampshire, 03824, United States

Location

Related Publications (4)

• Kann L, Kinchen S, Shanklin SL, Flint KH, Kawkins J, Harris WA, Lowry R, Olsen EO, McManus T, Chyen D, Whittle L, Taylor E, Demissie Z, Brener N, Thornton J, Moore J, Zaza S; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Youth risk behavior surveillance--United States, 2013. MMWR Suppl. 2014 Jun 13;63(4):1-168.

  PMID: 24918634 BACKGROUND

• Cook-Craig PG, Coker AL, Clear ER, Garcia LS, Bush HM, Brancato CJ, Williams CM, Fisher BS. Challenge and opportunity in evaluating a diffusion-based active bystanding prevention program: Green Dot in high schools. Violence Against Women. 2014 Oct;20(10):1179-202. doi: 10.1177/1077801214551288. Epub 2014 Sep 24.

  PMID: 25255794 BACKGROUND

• American Association of University Women. (2001) Hostile Hallways: Bullying, Teasing, and Sexual Harassment in School, American Journal of Health Education, 32:5, 307-309, DOI: 10.1080/19325037.2001.10603488

  BACKGROUND

• Edwards KM, Banyard VL, Waterman EA, Mitchell KJ, Jones LM, Kollar LMM, Hopfauf S, Simon B. Evaluating the Impact of a Youth-Led Sexual Violence Prevention Program: Youth Leadership Retreat Outcomes. Prev Sci. 2022 Nov;23(8):1379-1393. doi: 10.1007/s11121-022-01343-x. Epub 2022 Mar 18.

  PMID: 35303249 DERIVED

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Dr. Katie Edwards
• Organization: University of Nebraska Lincoln

katie.edwards@unl.edu

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Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: No
• Restrictive Agreement: No

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology

Model Details: Multiple baseline survey design across three years including two baseline surveys prior to prevention programming and rollout of doses of programming across two years.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 29, 2017
• First Posted: July 2, 2017
• Study Start: February 27, 2017
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2020
• Study Completion: July 1, 2020
• Last Updated: November 12, 2021
• Results First Posted: November 3, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share

Locations

US (1)