Dating Violence Prevention Program Focusing on Middle School Boys
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interventional
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1 country
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Brief Summary
This study will test a web-based intervention to enhance emotion regulation skills and parent-son relationship communication to decrease adolescent boys' risk for dating violence involvement as well as attitudes supporting relationship aggression.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Oct 2019
Longer than P75 for not_applicable
1 active site
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
October 1, 2019
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
March 16, 2020
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
March 18, 2020
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
May 31, 2025
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
May 31, 2025
CompletedJuly 30, 2025
October 1, 2024
5.7 years
March 16, 2020
July 25, 2025
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Change in dating violence perpetration and victimization from baseline to 24-months
The Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory (CADRI), completed by dating teens, assesses verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual dating abuse perpetration and victimization with a current or recent dating partner. The CADRI has strong internal consistency (total α=.83) and 2-week test retest reliability, r=.68, p\<.01, as well as acceptable partner agreement (r=.64, p\<.01).
At baseline, participants will report lifetime and past 6-month DV. For all other time points we will assess the past 6 months
Secondary Outcomes (4)
Change in number of relationship from baseline to 24 months
Baseline, 3, 6, 12, 18, 24 months
Change in attitudes about relationship violence from baseline to 24 months
Baseline, 3, 6, 12, 18, 24 month followup
Change in aggressive behavior from baseline to 24 months
Baseline, 3, 6, 12, 18, 24 month followup
Change in digital abuse behaviors from baseline to 24 months
Baseline, 6, 12, 18, 24 month followup
Other Outcomes (3)
Change in frequency of sexual and substance use behaviors from baseline to 24 months
Baseline, 6, 12, 18, 24 month followup
Change in bullying behaviors from baseline to 24 months
Baseline, 6, 12, 18, 24 month followup
School discipline actions from baseline to 24 months
24 month followup
Study Arms (2)
Project STRONG
EXPERIMENTALProject STRONG is an active skill-based intervention designed to prevent adolescent dating violence among middle school boys. Boys and a parent will complete the web-based program together focusing on improving communication and emotion regulation.
Health Promotion
ACTIVE COMPARATORHealth Promotion is an information-based program designed to mimic content areas provided during middle-school health education. The content is provided via a web-based interface to mirror the content delivery in the active intervention (Project STRONG).
Interventions
Project STRONG is a 6-module web-based, dyadic intervention for middle school boys and their parents to complete. Its goal is primary prevention of adolescent dating violence by targeting parent-child communication and emotion regulation ability.
Health promotion is a 6 module web-based, health information program designed to provide health content similar to that provided in a middle school health class. This program is designed to mirror Project STRONG for time and delivery method.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- adolescent is between 12 and 15 years old
- adolescent identifies as male
- adolescent enrolled in the 7th or 8th grade at a participating school,
- parent/legal guardian and teen are English or Spanish speaking,
- parent/legal guardian and son reside together at least 50% of the time,
- parent/legal guardian is willing to provide consent for the adolescent to participate in the study,
- adolescent is willing to provide assent for their own participation.
You may not qualify if:
- adolescent or parent is unable to read at a 4th grade level or has developmental delays,
- other family members in household have previously participated in the study
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island, 09203, United States
MeSH Terms
Interventions
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- PREVENTION
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
March 16, 2020
First Posted
March 18, 2020
Study Start
October 1, 2019
Primary Completion
May 31, 2025
Study Completion
May 31, 2025
Last Updated
July 30, 2025
Record last verified: 2024-10
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Shared Documents
- STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF
- Time Frame
- Data will be deposited within one year of dissemination of primary study results to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Data and Specimen Hub (DASH). Access will be managed by DASH.
- Access Criteria
- Access to the deidentified data will be managed by DASH.
Per NIH data sharing policy (2015), within one year of completion of the study and dissemination of primary study results, deidentified datasets will be made available to the public, along with the final version of the study protocol, data dictionaries, and brief instructions.