Evaluating a Dating and Sexual Violence Bystander Prevention Program with High School Youth: A Cluster Randomized Control Trial

项目描述（由申请人提供）：项目概述/摘要。由于约会暴力（DV）和性侵犯（SA）在高中生中是一个主要的公共卫生问题，初级预防是至关重要的。然而，到目前为止，还没有针对高中生家庭暴力和家庭暴力的综合方案。旁观者干预鼓励所有社区成员参与家庭暴力和家庭暴力的预防，而不是关注潜在的受害者或肇事者。采用集群随机对照试验，目前的研究将测试引入旁观者（BITB） （Eckstein, Moynihan, Banyard, & Plante, 2013）的改编版本的有效性，该版本最初是为大学年龄的学生和高中生创建的。修订后的项目《引入旁观者高中课程》（BITB-HSC） （Eckstein, Edwards, Leyva, Moynihan, & Banyard, 2014）是基于对高中青少年及其教师的调查和焦点小组数据而制定的。在拟议的研究中，26所新英格兰高中将被随机分配到治疗组和对照组。在治疗条件学校，选定教室的学生将接受7次BITB-HSC计划，学校员工将接受60分钟的家庭暴力和家庭暴力旁观者干预学校研讨会，家长将收到家庭暴力和家庭暴力旁观者干预的信息表。实验组和对照组学校的学生和教职员工将包括测试前调查、测试后调查、五个月的随访调查和一年的随访调查。多层次建模技术将用于确定学生计划和学校员工研讨会的参与在多大程度上导致学生和学校员工在家庭暴力和家庭暴力相关的态度、知识和行为的变化。多层次建模还将用于检查项目有效性的中介因素（例如，知识的获取，态度的改变）和调节因素（例如，人口统计）。在收集了最终的、为期一年的跟踪数据后，BITB- hsc将在有对照条件的学校实施，以评估培训教师和同伴教育者实施BITB- hsc的可行性和保真度

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary/Abstract. Because dating violence (DV) and sexual assault (SA) among high school students is a major public health concern, primary prevention is critical. However, there is no comprehensive program to date for high school youth that targets both DV and SA from a bystander intervention framework. Bystander intervention encourages all community members to engage in the prevention of DV and SA rather than focusing on potential victims or perpetrators. Using a cluster randomized control trial, the current study will test the efficacy of an adapted version of Bringing in the Bystander() (BITB) (Eckstein, Moynihan, Banyard, & Plante, 2013), that was originally created for college-age students, with high school youth. The revised program, Bringing in the Bystander-High School Curriculum (BITB-HSC) (Eckstein, Edwards, Leyva, Moynihan, & Banyard, 2014), was developed based on survey and focus group data collected with high school youth and their teachers. In the proposed study, 26 New England high schools will be randomly assigned to the treatment condition group or the control condition group. In the treatment condition schools, students in selected classrooms will receive the seven-session BITB-HSC program, school staff will receive a 60-minute school workshop on DV and SA bystander intervention, and parents will receive an information sheet on DV and SA bystander intervention. Students and school staff in both the treatment condition and control condition schools will include pretest surveys, posttest surveys, five-month follow-up surveys, and one-year follow-up surveys. Multi-level modeling techniques will be used to determine the extent to which student program and school staff workshop participation leads to changes in DV and SA-related attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors among both students and school staff. Multi-level modeling will also be used to examine the mediators (e.g., acquisition of knowledge, change in attitudes) and moderators (e.g., demographics) of program effectiveness. Following the collection of the final, one-year follow-up data, BITB-HSC will be implemented in control condition schools to allow for the assessment of feasibility and fidelity in training teachers and peer educators to deliver the BITB- HSC. The proposed project has the potential to provide practitioners, educators, and researchers with an innovative, evidence-based prevention curriculum that could ultimately reduce the prevalence of DV and SA. Moreover, the proposed project will allow for the identification of mediators and moderators of program effectiveness, something that few studies have examined, but are recognized by experts in the field as a critical aspect of program evaluation. Ultimately, the proposed project has the potential to contribute substantially to the prevention of DV and SA among youth in U.S. society by adding a novel and evidence- based bystander prevention program to the repertoire of existing school-based prevention tools.