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

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Violence; Domestic Violence; Interpersonal Relationships; Adolescent Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03482687

HSC-SPH-12-0593

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 834 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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834 participants in 2 patient groups

Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships

Comparison Group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was provided, only usual care.