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

描述(申请人提供)：项目摘要/摘要。由于高中生中的约会暴力(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，到目前为止，还没有针对高中生的全面计划，从旁观者干预框架中同时针对DV和SA。旁观者干预鼓励所有社区成员参与预防DV和SA，而不是专注于潜在的受害者或肇事者。使用整群随机对照试验，目前的研究将测试改编版本的引入旁观者()(BITB)(Eackstein，Moynihan，Banyard，&Plante，2013)的效果，该版本最初是为大学年龄的学生和高中青年创建的。修订后的计划引入了旁观者-高中课程(BITB-HSC)(Eackstein，Edwards，Leyva，Moynihan，&Banyard，2014)，基于对高中青年及其教师收集的调查和焦点小组数据。在这项拟议的研究中，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。在治疗条件学校，选定教室的学生将接受为期七节的BITB-HSC计划，学校工作人员将接受为期60分钟的关于DV和SA旁观者干预的学校研讨会，家长将收到一份关于DV和SA旁观者干预的信息表。治疗情况学校和对照条件学校的学生和教职员工将包括测试前调查、测试后调查、五个月的跟踪调查和一年的跟踪调查。将使用多层次建模技术来确定学生计划和学校教职员工研讨会的参与在多大程度上导致学生和学校教职员工之间与DV和SA相关的态度、知识和行为的变化。还将使用多层次建模来检查计划有效性的中介因素(例如，知识获取、态度变化)和调节因素(例如，人口统计数据)。在收集了为期一年的最终跟踪数据后，将在对照条件学校实施BITB-HSC，以评估培训教师和同伴教育工作者交付BITB-HSC的可行性和忠诚度。 HSC.拟议的项目有可能为从业者、教育工作者和研究人员提供创新的、以证据为基础的预防课程，最终可能降低DV和SA的流行率。此外，拟议的项目将允许确定计划有效性的调解人和主持人，很少有研究对此进行审查，但该领域的专家认为这是计划评估的一个关键方面。最终，拟议的项目有可能通过在现有的以学校为基础的预防工具的基础上增加一个新颖的、基于证据的旁观者预防计划，从而在美国社会的年轻人中为预防DV和SA做出重大贡献。

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.