Shifting Boundaries: An Experimental Evaluation of a Dating Violence Prevention Program in Middle Schools
Shifting Boundaries: An Experimental Evaluation of a Dating Violence Prevention Program in Middle Schools
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DOI：
10.1007/s11121-012-0293-2
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Woods, Daniel
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作者：
Taylor, Bruce G.;Stein, Nan D.;Woods, Daniel
我们随机将移动边界干预分配给纽约市的30所公立中学，招收117个六年级和七年级班级(超过2500名学生)，让他们接受教室、大楼、联合干预或两者都不干预。课堂干预包括一个六节的课程，强调约会暴力和性骚扰(DV/H)肇事者的法律和后果、性别角色的社会构建以及健康的关系。以建筑物为基础的干预措施包括使用基于建筑物的限制令、在学生绘制的安全/不安全“热点”地区更高水平的教职员工/安保人员，以及提高对DV/H的认识和报告的海报。在基线、干预后即刻和干预后6个月进行学生调查。正如假设的那样，行为改善是干预的结果。在干预后6个月，仅限建筑物和联合干预措施有效地减少了涉及同龄人或约会伙伴的性暴力受害。仅限大楼干预的同龄人性暴力行为的减少也反映了这一点。虽然大多数结果表明干预措施是有效的，但确实出现了反常的结果(性骚扰受害报告的增加与频率较低的估计相矛盾)。然而，经过分析，这些异常结果被认为最有可能是虚假的。仅建筑干预的成功本身就很重要，因为它可以在几乎不给学校带来额外成本的情况下实施。
We randomly assigned the Shifting Boundaries interventions to 30 public middle schools in New York City, enrolling 117 sixth and seventh grade classes (over 2,500 students) to receive a classroom, a building, a combined, or neither intervention. The classroom intervention included a six-session curriculum emphasizing the laws and consequences for perpetrators of dating violence and sexual harassment (DV/H), the social construction of gender roles, and healthy relationships. The building-based intervention included the use of building-based restraining orders, higher levels of faculty/security presence in safe/unsafe "hot spots" mapped by students, and posters to increase DV/H awareness and reporting. Student surveys were implemented at baseline, immediately after the intervention, and 6-months post-intervention. As hypothesized, behaviors improved as a result of the interventions. The building-only and the combined interventions were effective in reducing sexual violence victimization involving either peers or dating partners at 6-months post-intervention. This was mirrored by reductions in sexual violence perpetration by peers in the building-only intervention. While the preponderance of results indicates that the interventions were effective, an anomalous result (increase in sexual harassment victimization reports that was contradicted by lower frequency estimates) did emerge. However, after analysis these anomalous results were deemed to be most likely spurious. The success of the building-only intervention alone is important because it can be implemented with very few extra costs to schools.