An Evidence-based Approach for Bullying Prevention

National Health Promotion Associates

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Substance Use; Substance Abuse; Bullying; Cyberbullying

Treatments: Behavioral: LST MS curriculum; Behavioral: LST MS curriculum+ Bullying/Cyberbulling serious game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT03205059

R44HD074319-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

This Phase II SBIR project is designed to address the critical public health problem of bullying and cyberbullying among middle school age youth. The project involves developing and testing bullying and cyberbullying prevention materials, including interactive classroom sessions and corresponding serious games, based on the evidence-based substance abuse prevention approach called Life Skills Training. The product has the potential to fill a gap in the intervention tools currently available to schools that can be widely disseminated throughout the country using existing marketing and dissemination channels and decrease the adverse consequences of bullying and cyberbullying as well as substance abuse.

Enrollment: 3,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Middle school aged-youth

Exclusion criteria

• Significant cognitive impairment or severe learning disabilities, as screened by field staff at participating sites

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3,000 participants in 2 patient groups

LST MS curriculum+ Bullying/Cyberbullying serious game

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: LST MS curriculum+ Bullying/Cyberbulling serious game

LST MS curriculum

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: LST MS curriculum