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CompletedNCT03482687Updated Mar 29, 2018

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

An interventional study of Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships in Adolescent Behavior, Interpersonal Relationships and Domestic Violence, sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 11 Years to 14 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-03-29.

Sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
834
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
11 Years to 14 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

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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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.

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Conditions studied

  • Adolescent Behavior
  • Interpersonal Relationships
  • Domestic Violence
  • Physical Violence

Keywords

  • adolescent behavior
  • interpersonal relationships
  • intimate partner violence
  • violence/prevention & control
  • program evaluation
  • teen dating violence
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
11 Years to 14 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

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.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
834 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships

    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.

    Behavioral: Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships

  • No intervention
    Comparison Group

    No intervention was provided, only usual care.

Interventions

  • BehavioralMe & You: Building Healthy Relationships

    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).

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

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

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

    Time frame: One year

Secondary outcomes

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

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Wolfe et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

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

    Time frame: One year

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

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

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Foshee et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Dahlberg et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Kidcope-Child Form by Laslo et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Foshee et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Strassberg et al.

    Time frame: One year

  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.

    Validated self report measure by Foshee et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    newly developed self-report measure

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Tharp and Noonan

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Cauce et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Wang et al.

    Time frame: One year

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

    Validated self report measure by Wang et al.

    Time frame: One year

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Study locations

1 site
  • Melissa Fleschler Peskin
    Houston, Texas 77030, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03482687
Lead sponsor
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Responsible party
Melissa Peskin (Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 29, 2018
Start date
Sep 2012
Primary completion
May 2015
Completion
May 2015
Last update
Mar 29, 2018

Study contacts

Melissa Peskin, PhD
principal investigator · University of Texas Houston School of Public Health
Susan Tortolero Emery, PhD
principal investigator · University of Texas Houston School of Public Health

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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