Me & You-Tech: A socio-ecological solution to teen dating violence for the digital age.

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• 批准号: 10329885
• 负责人: Jeffery McLaughlin
• 金额: $ 51.99万
• 依托单位: RADIANT CREATIVE GROUP, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-15 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10329885
• 关键词: Address; Adoption; Adult; Age; Attitude; Behavior; Behavioral; Belief; Child; Communication; Computers; Cues; Data; Education; Educational Curriculum; Emotional; Environment; Exposure to; Family; Feeling suicidal; Future; Gender Role; Goals; Home; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Laws; Mental Depression; Methods; Middle School Student; Outcome; Parents; Peer Review; Phase; Population; Prevention program; Public Health; Publications; Randomized Controlled Trials; Relationship-Building; Reporting; Resources; Schools; Self Efficacy; Sexting; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Students; Technology; Teen Dating Violence; Testing; Text; Training; Training Programs; Victimization; Violence; Work; Youth; base; bullying; conflict resolution; cost; dating violence; dating violence prevention; design; digital; ethnic minority; evidence base; experience; feasibility testing; high risk sexual behavior; improved; innovation; insight; intimate partner violence; junior high school; multi-component intervention; pilot test; pregnancy prevention; programs; prototype; psychosocial; racial and ethnic; scale up; sexual victimization; sixth grade; skills; social; substance use; theories; usability; violence perpetration

ABSTRACT The goal of this 3 year Fast-Track STTR is to develop and evaluate a multi-level (youth, parent, school) Internet-based dating violence (DV) prevention program, ‘Me & You-Tech’ (MYT) for 6th--grade middle school students. By 6th grade, approximately 50% of students will have engaged in a dating relationship. Of these, almost one-third will have perpetrated physical DV and almost two-thirds will have perpetrated emotional DV. Youth exposed to DV are more likely to perform poorly in school, experience difficulties in future relationships, participate in adult violence, and experience depression, suicidal ideation, bullying, substance use, and risky sexual behavior. Many U.S. states are required by law to provide DV education. However, youth exposure to DV education, in particular, effective programs, is minimal and the few programs available are confronted with challenges of school-based barriers to fidelity, training, and resources. The study comprises 2 phases and 10 specific aims: Phase 1: Develop the theoretically- and empirically- based MYT prototype and test feasibility (Mos.1-12). Phase 1 Specific Aims: 1.1 Conduct a content analysis of existing Me & You and SSS intervention matrices to identify required core content, methods, and strategies for MYT design (youth-, parent-, and school-level components); 1.2 Conduct review of MYT concepts and wireframes to test acceptability and perceived feasibility for use in the context of the school by School, Youth, and Parent Advisory Groups to inform MYT design (youth, parent-, and school-level components); 1.3 Develop MYT design documents and develop the prototype including alpha testing; 1.4 Test usability of MYT prototype; 1.5 Evaluate (pilot-test) the MYT prototype for feasibility and perceived value in school and home settings and review with distribution collaborator (ETR Inc.) for optimal specifications for dissemination; 1.6 Disseminate Phase 1 findings (Phase 1 report and peer reviewed publications). Phase 2: Develop MYT informed from Phase 1 and conduct a RCT to evaluate impact of MYT (Mos. 13-36). Phase 2 Specific Aims: 2.1 Revise MYT design documents (based on Phase 1 data) and obtain advisory group sign-off; 2.2 Develop the full theoretically- and empirically-based MYT program; 2.3 Test full MYT program functionality and content (alpha test), and usability; 2.4 Conduct a RCT of MYT 6th- grade students (n=300) in 4 Houston middle schools; 2.5 Review MYT distribution plans with collaborator ETR Inc.; 2.6 Disseminate Phase 2 findings of Phase 2 report and peer reviewed publications. The 3 primary hypotheses are: Compared to those not receiving MYT, youth who access MYT will demonstrate significantly: 1. Reduced DV (emotional, physical, or sexual) perpetration; 2. Reduced DV (emotional, physical, or sexual) victimization; and 3. Improved psychosocial determinants related to healthy/unhealthy dating relationships (e.g., knowledge, skills, self-efficacy, attitudes and norms, gender role beliefs, perceived parental and school factors). MYT addresses a call for innovative theory-based programs that use a social-ecological approach to DV, involving youth, their family, and their school while leveraging internet-based channels to optimize program fidelity and minimizing training, resources, and costs that limit adoption and scale-up in school settings. This project is founded on previous RCTs by this experienced collaborative investigative team on developing and testing successful middle school multi-component interventions. Me & You…Building Healthy Relationships (Me & You), a DV curriculum comprising classroom and computer-based lessons for youth, parental-child home-based activities, and school staff trainings, resulted in reduced DV perpetration and positive psychosocial outcomes related to norms towards violence, attitudes towards sexting, conflict resolution skills. The Secret of Seven Stones (SSS), an Internet-based pregnancy prevention game for parents and youth resulted in enhanced parent-youth communication regarding healthy relationships through text-based behavioral cues. Based on this strong empirical precedent, a completely Internet-based version of Me & You is proposed that leverages the strengths of these school- and home-based approaches. The specific aims of this study are to: MYT is significant because it addresses an important public health challenge to build youth skills for respectful dating relationships void of violence, to train school staff in providing supportive and protective environments to achieve this, and to enhance parent-youth discussion to reinforce the importance of healthy relationships. MYT is innovative because it will provide evidence in using an integrated multi-component socio-ecological approach to enhancing healthy relationships that uses a scalable technology-based channel to overcome the barriers of fidelity, resources, and cost of dissemination in school settings and provides a scalable solution to what is a dearth of readily disseminated evidence-based TDV programs and will provide.

抽象的 这个为期 3 年的快速通道 STTR 的目标是开发和评估多层次（青少年、家长、学校） 基于互联网的约会暴力 (DV) 预防计划，针对六年级中学的“Me & You-Tech”(MYT) 学生。到六年级时，大约 50% 的学生将建立约会关系。其中， 近三分之一的人会犯下身体 DV，而近三分之二的人会犯下情感 DV。 接触家庭暴力的青少年更有可能在学校表现不佳，在未来的人际关系中遇到困难， 参与成人暴力，并经历抑郁、自杀意念、欺凌、药物滥用和危险 性行为。美国许多州都依法要求提供 DV 教育。然而，青少年接触 DV 教育，特别是有效的计划，是很少的，而且为数不多的可用计划都面临着 学校在忠诚度、培训和资源方面存在障碍的挑战。 该研究包括 2 个阶段和 10 个具体目标： 第 1 阶段：制定理论和经验 基于 MYT 原型和测试可行性（Mos.1-12）。第一阶段具体目标： 1.1 进行内容分析 现有的“我和你”和 SSS 干预矩阵，以确定所需的核心内容、方法和策略 MYT 设计（青少年、家长和学校层面的部分）； 1.2 对 MYT 概念进行审查 用于测试学校、青年、学校在学校环境中使用的可接受性和感知可行性的线框图 家长咨询小组为 MYT 设计提供信息（青少年、家长和学校层面的组成部分）； 1.3 开发 MYT 设计文档并开发原型，包括 alpha 测试； 1.4 测试MYT原型的可用性； 1.5 评估（试点测试）MYT 原型在学校和家庭环境中的可行性和感知价值，以及 与分发合作者 (ETR Inc.) 审查最佳分发规范； 1.6 传播 第一阶段的发现（第一阶段报告和同行评审出版物）。第 2 阶段：开发 MYT 第 1 阶段并进行 RCT 来评估 MYT 的影响（Mos. 13-36）。第二阶段具体目标：2.1 修订 MYT 设计文件（基于第一阶段数据）并获得顾问小组签字； 2.2 全面开发 基于理论和经验的 MYT 计划； 2.3 测试完整的 MYT 程序功能和内容（alpha 测试）和可用性； 2.4 对休斯顿 4 所中学的 MYT 六年级学生（n=300）进行随机对照试验； 2.5 与合作者 ETR Inc. 一起审查 MYT 分配计划； 2.6 传播第二阶段报告的第二阶段调查结果 和同行评审的出版物。 3 个主要假设是： 与未接受 MYT 的青少年相比，接受 MYT 的青少年会 显着地表现出： 1. 减少 DV（情感、身体或性）犯罪； 2. 减少DV （情感、身体或性）受害； 3. 改善相关的心理社会决定因素 健康/不健康的约会关系（例如知识、技能、自我效能、态度和规范、性别角色 信仰、感知的父母和学校因素）。 MYT 呼吁采用社会生态方法来解决 DV、基于理论的创新计划， 让青少年、他们的家庭和学校参与其中，同时利用基于互联网的渠道来优化计划 保真度并最大限度地减少限制在学校环境中采用和扩大规模的培训、资源和成本。这 该项目是由这个经验丰富的合作研究团队在以前的随机对照试验的基础上建立的，旨在开发 并测试成功的中学多成分干预措施。我和你……构建健康 关系（我和你），DV 课程，包括面向青少年的课堂和基于计算机的课程， 亲子家庭活动和学校工作人员培训减少了家庭暴力的发生， 与暴力规范、性短信态度、冲突解决相关的积极心理社会结果 技能。七块石头的秘密（SSS），一款面向父母和青少年的互联网预防怀孕游戏 通过基于文本的方式加强了家长与青少年关于健康关系的沟通 行为线索。基于这个强有力的经验先例，完全基于互联网的《我和你》版本是 建议利用这些基于学校和家庭的方法的优势。本次活动的具体目标 研究目的是： MYT 意义重大，因为它解决了重要的公共卫生挑战，以培养青年技能 尊重约会关系，避免暴力，培训学校工作人员提供支持和保护 环境来实现这一目标，并加强家长与青少年的讨论，以强调健康的重要性 关系。 MYT 具有创新性，因为它将提供使用集成多组件的证据 使用可扩展的基于技术的渠道来增强健康关系的社会生态方法 克服学校环境中传播的忠诚度、资源和成本障碍，并提供 针对缺乏易于传播的基于证据的 TDV 计划的可扩展解决方案并将提供。