Expect Respect Middle School: Preventing Serious and Lethal Violence Among Youth With Prior Violence Exposure
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 635
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change from baseline in self-reported recent (past 3 months) violence perpetration at one year after baseline
研究概览
简要总结
This cluster-randomized school-based study will examine the effectiveness of a teen dating violence (TDV) and sexual violence (SV) prevention program called Expect Respect for preventing serious violence perpetration among middle school students.
详细描述
This cluster-randomized controlled school-based study will examine the effectiveness of a support group-based teen dating violence (TDV) and sexual violence (SV) prevention program on the primary prevention of serious (and potentially lethal) violence perpetration among middle school students (both male and female-identified) who have prior exposure to trauma and violence. Expect Respect gender-specific support groups are for youth with prior history of exposure to violence including witnessing domestic violence, loss of loved one to homicide, TDV, and SV.
Expect Respect is a theory and research-informed program intended to alter norms condoning violence and rigid gender expectations that foster violence perpetration, promote bystander intervention, and reduce TDV/SV perpetration. Implemented by trained facilitators, the 24-session curriculum focuses on gender equity and respect, recognizing abuse and impact on self and others, regulating emotions, skills for healthy relationships, and becoming active proponents of safe and healthy relationships.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 11 Years 至 15 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Participants must be in grades 7-8
- •Participants must be referred by school personnel
- •Participants must speak English
排除标准
- •Not in 7th- 8th grade
- •Not referred to the group by school personnel
- •Does not speak English
研究组 & 干预措施
Expect Respect Support Group
Experimental: Expect Respect Support Group Expect Respect is a program intended to create safe, trauma-informed space for young people who have been exposed to violence, to promote positive bystander intervention and healthy relationship skills, to alter norms that foster TDV/SV perpetration, and reduce violence perpetration through weekly support groups with students at elevated risk for such perpetration. Youth with prior history of exposure to violence are invited to in-school gender specific support groups that take place over 24 in-classroom sessions.
Expect Respect addresses violence perpetration prevention with youth already exposed to violence by recognizing violence as a problem that is fueled by gender norms that promote dominance and challenging the need to control and exert power in relationships especially with the use of violence, while simultaneously strengthening emotion regulation, social skills, and connectedness.
干预措施: Expect Respect (Behavioral)
Enhanced Usual Care
Comparator: Enhanced Usual Care The control arm will receive enhanced usual care. Enhanced care means that the investigators will ensure each school has information, resource lists, and connection to services for individual youth who are referred to the study, including warm referrals to victim service agencies, behavioral health services, as well as resources (e.g., assistance with food insecurity, and so forth).
干预措施: Enhanced Usual Care (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Change from baseline in self-reported recent (past 3 months) violence perpetration at one year after baseline
时间窗: One year after baseline (Time 3)
Summary score of violence perpetration likely to result in serious injury or death (physical and sexual TDV - 4 items, SV - 5 items, threats with a weapon - 1 item, and physical fighting - 1 item), calculated as one point for each behavior endorsed and then summed (possible range: 0-11).
Change from baseline in self-reported recent (past 3 months) violence perpetration at End of Program
时间窗: End of program (average 24-30 weeks after baseline, Time 2 - primary endpoint)
Summary score of violence perpetration likely to result in serious injury or death (physical and sexual TDV - 4 items, SV - 5 items, threats with a weapon - 1 item, and physical fighting - 1 item), calculated as one point for each behavior endorsed and then summed (possible range: 0-11).
次要结局
- Change from baseline in frequency of weapon carrying at one year after baseline(One year after baseline (Time 3))
- Change from baseline in frequency of weapon carrying at End of Program(End of program (average 24-30 weeks after baseline, Time 2 - primary endpoint))
- Change from baseline in positive bystander behaviors at one year after baseline(One year after baseline (Time 3))
- Change from baseline in positive bystander behaviors at End of Program(End of program (average 24-30 weeks after baseline, Time 2 - primary endpoint))
研究者
Elizabeth Miller
Professor
University of Pittsburgh