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NCT Number: NCT03482687

It's Your Game: An Innovative Approach to Preventing Teen Dating Violence

The purpose of this study is to evaluate Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships, a classroom- and computer-based healthy relationships and dating violence prevention curriculum for 6th grade students, in a large, urban public school district in Southeast Texas.

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Key information

Conditions

Adolescent Behavior Behavior Domestic Violence Interpersonal Relationships Physical Violence

Age range

11 year–14 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Melissa Fleschler Peskin

Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

About this study

The purpose of this three year study is to evaluate Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships, a classroom- and computer-based healthy relationships and dating violence prevention curriculum for 6th grade students, in a large, urban public school district in Southeast Texas. This curriculum was adapted from an existing effective sex education and relationship curriculum, It's Your Game…Keep it Real (IYG), which was enhanced to more explicitly address teen dating violence (TDV) and encompass multiple levels of the social-ecological model (e.g., youth, family, school staff). A randomized two-arm, nested design was conducted among 6th grade students, where students receiving the curriculum were compared to students receiving usual care. Ten middle schools participated in the study, five schools were randomly assigned to receive the curriculum and five to receive usual care. Outcomes were assessed at baseline, immediately following the intervention, and 12 months after baseline. Parental permission and student assent were obtained prior to administration of the surveys. The primary hypothesis is that students who receive the curriculum will have significantly lower TDV perpetration than those who do not receive the curriculum.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • 6th graders attending regular classes in ten study schools in large, urban school district in Southeast Texas

Exclusion criteria

  • No students were excluded based on race/ethnicity, age, or gender.
  • Students were informed that surveys and the intervention were only available in English and were asked to consider their comfort level with participating in the study.

Treatment and study plan

Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships

Behavioral

Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships is a classroom- and computer-based healthy relationships curriculum for middle school students. It consists of thirteen 25-minute lessons: 5 classroom, 5 computer-only, and 3 classroom-computer hybrid. The curriculum integrates group-based classroom activities (e.g., role-plays, group discussion, and other skill-building activities) and computer-based activities, some of which are individually tailored. The curriculum was adapted from an existing effective sex education and relationship curriculum, It's Your Game…Keep it Real (IYG), which was enhanced to more explicitly address teen dating violence (TDV).

Primary outcomes

  1. Percent of youth who perpetrated any type of teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

  2. Percent of youth who were victimized by any type of teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percent of youth who perpetrated psychological teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

  2. Percent of youth who were victimized by psychological teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

  3. Percent of youth who perpetrated physical teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

  4. Percent of youth who were victimized by physical teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

  5. Percent of youth who perpetrated sexual teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

  6. Percent of youth who were victimized by sexual teen dating violence as indicated by the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

  7. Percent of youth who perpetrated electronic teen dating violence as indicated measures adapted from Picard and Zweig

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Picard et al. and Zweig et al.

  8. Percent of youth who were victimized by electronic teen dating violence as indicated measures adapted from Picard and Zweig

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Picard et al. and Zweig et al.

  9. Mean score reflecting student norms toward violence for boys and girls as indicated byt the Acceptance of Dating Abuse Survey

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Foshee et al.

  10. Mean score for self-efficacy to resolve conflict as indicated by the Teen Conflict Survey

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Dahlberg et al.

  11. Percent of youth reported one or more positive coping strategies as indicated by the Kidcope-Child Survey Form

    Time frame: One year

    Kidcope-Child Form by Laslo et al.

  12. Mean score of constructive and destructive conflict resolution skills as indicated by valid scales developed by Foshee et al.

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Foshee et al.

  13. Mean score for attitudes towards sexting as indicated by a scale developed by Strassberg et al.

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Strassberg et al.

  14. Mean score related to a student's belief in the need for help for dating violence victimization as indicated by measures developed by Foshee et al.

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Foshee et al.

  15. Mean score for perceived peer dating violence perpetration (from the perspective of student) - newly developed

    Time frame: One year

    newly developed self-report measure

  16. Mean score for parental communication about drugs, sex, and relationships as indicated by measures developed by Tharp et al.

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Tharp and Noonan

  17. Percent of youth who indicated social support from source as indicated by measures adapted from the Social Support Rating Scale

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Cauce et al.

  18. Percent of youth who perpetrated bullying as indicated by measures developed by Wang et al.

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Wang et al.

  19. Percent of youth who were victimized by bullying as indicated by measures developed from Wang et al.

    Time frame: One year

    Validated self report measure by Wang et al.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2012
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2015
First posted
Mar 29, 2018
Registry last updated
Mar 29, 2018

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