Examining the Effectiveness of the myPlan App to Prevent Dating Violence With Adolescents

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Intimate Partner Violence
• Interventions: Behavioral: Personalized Healthy Relationship and Safety Planning Tool; Behavioral: Usual Care Teen Relationship and Health Website

• Registration Number: NCT04564261
• Lead Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University

Brief Summary

Intimate partner violence (IPV), including violence in teen dating relationships \[teen dating violence (TDV)\], is a common and a serious threat to adolescent health, safety, and well-being. TDV may include psychological/emotional abuse, sexual harassment or coercion, stalking (including cyberstalking), and physical or sexual violence. For many, the first experience of violence is in a dating or casual relationship with a partner or acquaintance during adolescence. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of an adapted version of the myPlan app for adolescents (ages 15-17 years) to prevent and respond to TDV. myPlan is an app available for mobile download or by web browser that interactively assists users to assess the health and safety of user's intimate relationship, receive personalized strategies on how build healthier relationships, stay safe and healthy while navigating an unsafe relationship, and get connected to support and resources.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-09-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-09-21
• Study First Posted: 2020-09-25
• Study Start: 2020-12-06
• Status Verified: 2022-07
• Primary Completion: 2022-08-25
• Study Completion: 2022-08-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-09-01
• Last Update Posted: 2022-09-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 617

Inclusion Criteria

• Between the ages of 15-17 years old
• Lives in the United States
• Reports current or past 6 months physical violence, sexual violence, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, or staking (including cyberstalking or electronic aggression) by a dating/casual/intimate/ex-intimate partner
• Speaks/reads English
• Has access to a safe device (e.g., smartphone, tablet, or computer) with internet access and comfortable downloading an app or using the internet
• Has a safe contact phone number or email address

Exclusion Criteria

• Younger than 15 years of age
• Older than 17 years of age
• Does not report current or past 6 months abuse from a dating/casual/intimate/ex- intimate partner
• Does not speak/read English
• Does not have access to a safe device (e.g., smartphone, tablet, or computer) with internet access
• Does not have a safe contact phone number or email address

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
myPlan Teen Group	Personalized Healthy Relationship and Safety Planning Tool	Personalized Healthy Relationship and Safety Planning Tool.
Usual Care Teen Control Group	Usual Care Teen Relationship and Health Website	Usual Care Teen Relationships and Health Resource.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from baseline in State of Change in Enacting Safety Behaviors	Baseline, 3-, 6-, 12-months	Score on a 0 - 5 scale indicating stage a person is in with regard to taking action to make their relationship healthy with 0 indicating no action and 5 indicating full action.
Change from baseline in safety behaviors measured by the Safety Behavior Checklist	Baseline, 3-, 6-, 12-months	Percent of safety behaviors that a person has tried that they found helpful measured on checklist adapted from Intimate Partner Violence Strategies Index to assess for the range of formal and informal help seeking strategies used to halt, escape, or resist violence, and the helpfulness of each strategy.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from baseline in survivors' dating abuse experience measured by Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory (CADRI)	Baseline, 3-, 6-, 12-months	CADRI is an 11 item scale with a 5 point response scale (never to always) that measures the frequency of experiencing different forms of dating abuse
Change from baseline in survivors' depression measured by Pediatric Depressive Symptoms - Short Form 8a.	Baseline, 3-, 6-, 12-months	The Pediatric Depressive Symptoms - SF 8a is an 8 items scale with a 5 point response scale (never to always) that measures the frequency of different depressive symptoms. It was developed as part of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS).

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

University of Missouri; 🇺🇸 Columbia, Missouri, United States

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States