PFI-TT: Novel mobile platform technology to both prevent and respond to teen dating violence

PFI-TT：新颖的移动平台技术，可预防和应对青少年约会暴力

• 批准号: 1919063
• 负责人: Sharyn Potter
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-15 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1919063&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; TT; Novel; mobile; platform

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) PFI project is to develop a smartphone app/platform technology to prevent and respond to dating violence incidences, a significant public health problem affecting over 35% of high school students with long-term health, social and economic consequences. Despite the magnitude of this problem, 68% of high school principals reported lacking formal training on how to assist teen dating violence victims. The proposed technology offers an economically viable dating violence prevention strategy for high schools. The existing mobile apps are not designed for high school students to assist themselves (or a friend) who is a victim of teen dating violence and do not have a have a simple mechanism enabling high school administrators to coordinate and customize the prevention and response messaging their students are accessing. If successful, the proposed technology will fill a gap not addressed by currently available solutions, which are not designed to help the students enrolled in the 35,163 US high schools discretely extricate themselves from situations with the potential to become dangerous. The proposed project will consist of three elements that, combined, represent a highly innovative technology solution to a prevalent public health problem. First is the use of existing smartphone capabilities in new ways (e.g., enabling users to appear to receive urgent texts or phone calls, which are, in reality, simulated, to provide a socially sensitive reason for a student to leave a risky situation). Second is the application of extensive evidence-based research to both prevention and response technology features within the app. Third is a simple-to-use dashboard, through which high school administrators can easily customize data in the back-end database, to make it specific to their students and institution, and monitor its use among their students.The specific feature requirements needed for this interactive mobile platform will be informed by institutional review board (IRB)-reviewed interviews, focus groups and online surveys with students, parents/guardians and school administrators. The proposed hybrid smartphone app will run on Apple iOS and Android operating systems, using Google's Firebase SDK for analytics and accessing data from a back-end SQL database. The app platform will include a simple-to-use dashboard interface to the database, enabling schools to easily customize content to adapt to school and state policies and to monitor anonymous statistics about app use within their institution.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这一创新-技术转化伙伴关系项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是开发一种智能手机应用程序/平台技术，以预防和应对约会暴力事件，这是一个严重的公共卫生问题，影响了35%以上的高中生，并产生长期的健康、社会和经济后果。尽管这个问题的严重性，68%的高中校长报告说，缺乏关于如何帮助青少年约会暴力受害者的正式培训。这项技术为高中提供了一种经济上可行的约会暴力预防策略。现有的移动的应用程序不是为高中生设计的，以帮助他们自己（或朋友）谁是青少年约会暴力的受害者，也没有一个简单的机制，使高中管理人员能够协调和定制他们的学生正在访问的预防和响应消息。如果成功的话，这项技术将填补目前可用解决方案所无法解决的空白，这些解决方案的目的不是帮助35，163所美国高中的学生从可能变得危险的情况中解脱出来。拟议的项目将包括三个要素，这三个要素结合在一起，代表了一个高度创新的技术解决方案，以解决一个普遍的公共卫生问题。首先是以新的方式使用现有的智能手机功能（例如，使用户看起来好像在接收紧急文本或电话，这实际上是模拟的，以便为学生提供离开危险环境的社会敏感的理由）。第二是应用程序中的预防和应对技术功能应用了广泛的循证研究。第三是简单易用的仪表板，高中管理员可以通过仪表板轻松定制后端数据库中的数据，使其针对学生和机构，，并监察学生使用该互动移动的平台的情况。院校检讨委员会（IRB）-审查访谈，焦点小组和在线调查与学生，家长/监护人和学校管理人员。拟议中的混合智能手机应用程序将在苹果iOS和Android操作系统上运行，使用谷歌的Firebase SDK进行分析，并从后端SQL数据库访问数据。该应用平台将包括一个简单易用的数据库仪表板界面，使学校能够轻松定制内容，以适应学校和国家的政策，并监测其机构内的应用程序使用的匿名统计数据。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。