Efficacy of a Web-based Sexual Violence Risk Reduction Program for Female College Students (RealConsent)

Georgia State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexual Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: RealConsent; Behavioral: Stress and Mood Management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03726437

5R42AA025817-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the efficacy of a web-based program for female college freshmen ("RealConsent") in reducing their risk of sexual violence victimization. Half the participants will receive RealConsent-F and half will receive an attention-placebo control ("Stress and Mood Management").

Full description

Sexual assault of college women is a serious and complex public health problem: one in five college women report being sexually assaulted. The purpose of this study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial study with 750 female college students from three universities to test the efficacy of RealConsent, a sexual violence risk reduction program for college women, compared to an attention-placebo control. RealConsent is a multi-media 3-hour program based on social cognitive theory and alcohol myopia theory. The primary outcome will be self-reported sexual violence victimization and the secondary outcomes will be alcohol and dating protective- and risk-related behaviors and resistance strategies. The investigators expect that women in the treatment group will report less sexual violence victimization than women in the control group. Expected outcomes are demonstrated feasibility and efficacy of a technologically novel risk reduction program for female college students.

Enrollment: 881 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 20 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• female, aged 18-20 years, full-time freshmen, matriculated at Georgia State University, Emory University, or University of Georgia, and single (i.e., not in a committed dating relationship).

Exclusion criteria

• other education levels, married, and/or graduate status

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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881 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

RealConsent

Experimental group

Description:

A 3-hour web-based program designed to teach female college freshmen strategies to reduce their risk of sexual violence victimization.

Treatment:

Behavioral: RealConsent

Stress and Mood Management

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

A 3-hour general mental health web-based program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stress and Mood Management