Preventing Adolescent Dating Violence Through Gender-Transformative Healthy Relationships Promotion: The WiseGuyz Program
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 437
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Bystander intervention behaviours for violence prevention
研究概览
简要总结
Adolescent dating violence (ADV) is a pressing public health problem in North America, and strategies to prevent perpetration are needed. To this end, a substantial body of research demonstrates the importance of applying a gender lens to target root causes of ADV. To date, however, there has been limited research on how to specifically engage boys in ADV prevention. As such, this protocol describes the evaluation of a program called WiseGuyz, a community-facilitated, gender-transformative healthy relationships program for mid-adolescent (~ages 13-15) male-identified youth. WiseGuyz aims to reduce male-perpetrated ADV, and improve mental and sexual health, by helping participants identify and deconstruct male gender role norms, and explore healthier, more inclusive ways of being a guy in the world. The primary goal of this evaluation is to explore the impact of WiseGuyz on ADV outcomes among mid-adolescent male-identified youth, using a mixed-methods, longitudinal, quasi-experimental design with a matched comparison group.
详细描述
Study Design and Overview:
In this project, the investigators will examine the association between participation in the WiseGuyz program and ADV outcomes. The investigators will use a mixed-methods, quasi-experimental design with pre-test, post-test and one-year follow-up surveys, engaging participants from two Western Canadian school divisions. Through focus groups with youth participants, the investigators will contextualize quantitative survey data, to deepen understanding of how WiseGuyz may promote the prevention of ADV.
Participants:
The investigators plan to recruit approximately 700-800 grade nine male-identified youth in 7 participating schools.
Procedures:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 13 Years 至 16 Years（Child）
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •all participants need to be enrolled in the 9th grade in 2019-20, 2021-22 or 2022-23 in order to participate (study length extended due to COVID-19 disruptions in 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22).
排除标准
- •individuals who are not male-identified and not in the 9th grade at one of the participating schools in 2019-20, 2021-22 or 2022-23 will not be invited to participate.
结局指标
主要结局
Bystander intervention behaviours for violence prevention
时间窗: Cohort 1: up to 12 months; Cohort 2: up to 12 months
Change from baseline in positive (e.g., talking to an adult) and negative (e.g., laughing) behaviours among intervention participants as compared to matched controls, as assessed using the Bystander Intervention Behaviors scale (Abebe et al., 2018).
次要结局
- Adolescent dating violence perpetration(Cohort 1: 12 months; Cohort 2: 12 months)
- Sexual health self-efficacy(Cohort 1: up to 12 months; Cohort 2: up to 12 months)
- Bullying perpetration(Cohort 1: 12 months; Cohort 2: 12 months)
- Attitudes towards sexual minorities(Cohort 1: Immediate post-test; Cohort 2: immediate post-test)
- Intentions to intervene with peers(Cohort 1: Immediate post-test; Cohort 2: Immediate post-test)
- Positive mental health(Cohort 1: 12 months; Cohort 2: 12 months)
- Adherence to male role norms(Cohort 1: Immediate post-test; Cohort 2: Immediate post-test)
- Help-seeking(Cohort 1: Immediate post-test; Cohort 2: Immediate post-test)
- Friendship closeness(Cohort 1: 12 months; Cohort 2: 12 months)
- Homophobic name-calling(Cohort 1: 12 months; Cohort 2: 12 months)
- Dating abuse awareness(Cohort 1: Immediate post-test; Cohort 2: Immediate post-test)