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

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要/摘要。 由于高中生的约会暴力（DV）和性侵犯（SA）是一个主要的公共卫生问题，初级预防至关重要。然而，迄今为止，还没有针对高中青年的综合方案，从旁观者干预框架中同时针对家庭暴力和SA。旁观者干预鼓励所有社区成员参与预防家庭暴力和性骚扰，而不是把重点放在潜在的受害者或肇事者身上。使用群集随机对照试验，本研究将测试改编版的引入旁观者（）（BITB）（Eckstein，Moynihan，Banyard，& Plante，2013）的有效性，该版本最初是为大学年龄的学生创建的，与高中青年。修订后的计划，引入旁观者高中课程（BITB-HSC）（Eckstein，Edwards，Leyva，Moynihan，& Banyard，2014），是根据调查和焦点小组收集的数据与高中青年和他们的老师。在拟议的研究中，26所新英格兰高中将被随机分配到治疗条件组或控制条件组。在治疗条件的学校，学生在选定的教室将接受七届BITB-HSC计划，学校工作人员将收到一个60分钟的学校讲习班DV和SA旁观者干预，家长将收到一份信息表DV和SA旁观者干预。学生和学校工作人员在治疗条件和控制条件的学校将包括预测试调查，后测试调查，五个月的跟踪调查，和一年的跟踪调查。多层次的建模技术将被用来确定在何种程度上学生计划和学校工作人员研讨会的参与导致DV和SA相关的态度，知识和学生和学校工作人员之间的行为的变化。还将使用多层次建模来检查介质（例如，知识的获取，态度的改变）和调节器（例如，人口统计学）的方案有效性。在收集最终的一年随访数据后，将在控制条件学校实施BITB-HSC，以评估培训教师和同伴教育者提供BITB的可行性和忠诚度。 HSC。拟议的项目有可能为从业人员，教育工作者和研究人员提供一个创新的，以证据为基础的预防课程，最终可以减少家庭暴力和SA的流行。此外，拟议中的项目将允许确定调解人和主持人的程序的有效性，很少有研究已经检查，但在该领域的专家公认的程序评估的一个重要方面。最终，拟议的项目有可能通过在现有的学校预防工具库中增加一个新的和基于证据的旁观者预防计划，为预防美国社会青年中的家庭暴力和SA做出实质性贡献。

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.