A Web-based Bystander Education Program

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Sexual Violence
• Interventions: Behavioral: Bystander & Sexual Violence Prevention; Behavioral: General Health Promotion

• Registration Number: NCT01903876
• Lead Sponsor: Emory University

Brief Summary

This is a study to determine whether a theoretically-driven web-based 3-hour intervention designed for male college students called RealConsent is effective in increasing prosocial intervening behaviors and in preventing sexual violence perpetration. Sexual violence programs for this population have been implemented for decades in the United States, but a program that is web-based and incorporates the bystander education model has never been implemented or tested. In this study, male college students will be recruited online, enrolled and randomly assigned to RealConsent or to a comparison condition. Prior to the intervention, investigators will ask questions about their intervening and sexually coercive behaviors and other theoretical and empirical factors related to the study outcomes. Investigators will survey the young men again at post-intervention, and at 6-months follow-up to determine whether young men in the RealConsent program intervened more often and engaged in less sexual violence compared to young men in the comparison condition. The main hypotheses are: (1) college men in the RealConsent program will report more instances of prosocial intervening; and (2) college men in the RealConsent program will report less sexual violence against women.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-02
• Primary Completion: 2011-05
• Study Completion: 2011-05
• Study First Submitted: 2013-07-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-07-17
• Study First Posted: 2013-07-19
• Results First Submitted: 2014-04-29
• Status Verified: 2014-07
• Results First Submitted QC: 2014-07-22
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-07-22
• Results First Posted: 2014-07-23
• Last Update Posted: 2014-07-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 743

Inclusion Criteria

• Student matriculated at Georgia State University
• Male
• 18 to 24
• Undergraduate
• Self-identify as heterosexual or bisexual

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Exclusion Criteria

• Graduate student
• Self-identify as homosexual

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Bystander & Sexual Violence Prevention	Bystander & Sexual Violence Prevention	A 3-hour web-based program designed to teach male college student bystanders to intervene.
General Health promotion	General Health Promotion	A 3-hour general mental health web-based program.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Prosocial Intervening Behavior	6 months	This scale is the Reactions to Offensive Language and Behavior (ROLB) index that measures whether or not men confronted inappropriate behaviors of other men. We used the 7-item self-behavior subscale plus an additional 8 items, which directly reflected the content of RealConsent. A series of 15 potential intervening situations were presented and participants were asked to indicate whether they had experienced this situation in past 6 months (yes/no), and whether they had intervened (yes/no). The scale ranged from 0% (did not intervene anytime) to 100% (intervened every time).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sexual Violence Perpetration	6 months	This scale is the Conflict Tactics Scale revised, Sexual Coercion Subscale and assessed the number of sexually coercive/violent behaviors engaged in during the past 6 months. The index ranges from 0 (no engagement in any sexual violence) to 7 (engaged in all 7 sexually violent behaviors).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Georgia State University; 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States