Experimentally Testing the Effectiveness of a Campus-based Bystander Intervention

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Status: Completed

Conditions: Assaultive Behavior; Helping Behavior; Sexual Assault and Rape; Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: SCREAM Theater Dose 4; Behavioral: SCREAM Theater Dose 1; Behavioral: SCREAM Theater Doses 2 & SCREAM Theater Dose 3

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT02083302

07-412M

1R01CE001855-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a bystander intervention education program on college students' attitudes and behaviors associated with bystander intervention and sexual violence.

Full description

This study used a randomized control trial, longitudinal design to determine the impact of a peer education theater intervention on undergraduate student attitudes and behaviors related to sexual violence and bystander intervention. Students were assigned to either an experimental group (receiving 3-4 doses of the intervention ) or a comparison group (receiving 1 dose only) and were surveyed six times over an 18 month period.

Enrollment: 4,385 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 21 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Incoming first year students in the fall semester of 2010
• Age 18 - 21
• Attended Summer Orientation session

Exclusion criteria

• Incoming transfer students
• Younger than 18 or older than 21

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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4,385 participants in 3 patient groups

Treatment1

Experimental group

Description:

The Treatment1 group received SCREAM Theater Dose 1, SCREAM Theater Dose 2 and SCREAM Theater Dose 3.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SCREAM Theater Dose 1

Behavioral: SCREAM Theater Doses 2 & SCREAM Theater Dose 3

Treatment2

Experimental group

Description:

The Treatment2 group received SCREAM Theater Dose 1, SCREAM Theater Dose 2, SCREAM Theater Dose 3 and SCREAM Theater Dose 4.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SCREAM Theater Dose 1

Behavioral: SCREAM Theater Dose 4

Behavioral: SCREAM Theater Doses 2 & SCREAM Theater Dose 3

Control

Other group

Description:

The control group received SCREAM Theater Dose 1.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SCREAM Theater Dose 1