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Not yet recruitingNCT07223957Updated Nov 3, 2025

Using an Innovative Implementation Strategy to Increase the Translation of Effective Youth Violence Prevention Programs in Schools

An interventional study of iCHAMPS-YVP in Bullying and Teen Dating Violence, sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-11-03.

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

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
25
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to Adapt the existing iCHAMPSS's tools to support school policies related to the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of effective youth bullying and dating violence prevention programs (iCHAMPS-YVP), to assess the usability (acceptability, ease of use, credibility, motivational appeal, and perceived helpfulness) of iCHAMPS-YVP in schools and to assess the feasibility of iCHAMPS-YVP with school staff to impact individual- (e.g.,knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy of school staff) and district-level (e.g., policy, readiness, and support) determinants of the adoption and implementation of effective youth violence prevention programs.

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Conditions studied

  • Bullying
  • Teen Dating Violence

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In context

Bullying

57 studies on the registry are indexed under Bullying; 9 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 25 is below the median of 228 across 51 interventional studies indexed under Bullying.

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Lead sponsor

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston is the lead sponsor of 897 studies on the registry; 214 are open to participants now.

Of its 173 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 142 (82%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

Hold one of the following positions:

  • district or school administrator (e.g., health coordinators, instructional specialists, and curriculum coordinators)
  • health and physical education teachers
  • social and health service staff (e.g., nurses and counselors) in a Texas school district.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • not holding a job in a Texas school district as a school stakeholder
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
25 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    iCHAMPS-YVP

    Behavioral: iCHAMPS-YVP

Interventions

  • BehavioraliCHAMPS-YVP

    iCHAMPSS (CHoosing And Maintaining Effective Programs for Sex Education in Schools), a theory-based, online implementation strategy developed to increase the uptake of evidence-based sexual health programs (EBPs) in Texas schools. The intervention provides interactive tools, step-by-step guidance, and resources to assist school districts.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Usability as assessed by the ease of use

    This will be reported categorically on a Five-point Likert scale in the following categories from Very Easy, Kind of Easy, Kind of Hard, Very Hard, and Did Not Use

    Time frame: Three weeks post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  2. Change in Self-Efficacy as assessed by the iCHAMPS-YVP tasks

    This will be reported categorically on a Four-point Likert scale in the following categories; not at all confident, somewhat confident, confident and very confident

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months post iCHAMPS-YVP access

Secondary outcomes

  1. Current practices: dating violence prevention education

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories; 1. Yes, for middle school only 2. Yes, for high school only 3. Yes, for both middle and high school 4. No, my district/school does not provide sexual health education to middle or high school

    Time frame: Baseline

  2. Current practices: bullying prevention education

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories; 1. Yes, for middle school only 2. Yes, for high school only 3. Yes, for both middle and high school 4. No, my district/school does not provide sexual health education to middle or high school

    Time frame: Baseline

  3. Challenges that have prevented the district/school from implementing dating violence prevention education

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories; 1. There have been no challenges 2. Lack of time to teach the curriculum 3. No substitute teachers available 4. Lack of curriculum resources (not including funding) 5. Lack of funding 6. Teacher comfort level with the content 7. Lack of training opportunities for teachers 8. Concerns about parents' reactions 9. Concerns about students' reactions 10. Concerns about reactions from administration or district 11. Concerns about reactions from the community 12. School or district policy regarding sexual health instruction 13. Requirement of active parental consent 14. Too many other district/school priorities 15. Lack of Board of Trustees' approval of the curriculum 16. Other (please specify):

    Time frame: Baseline

  4. Challenges that have been present when the district/school has implemented the curriculum for bullying prevention education instruction

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories; 1. There have been no challenges 2. Lack of time to teach the curriculum 3. No substitute teachers available 4. Lack of curriculum resources (not including funding) 5. Lack of funding 6. Teacher comfort level with the content 7. Lack of training opportunities for teachers 8. Concerns about parents' reactions 9. Concerns about students' reactions 10. Concerns about reactions from administration or district 11. Concerns about reactions from the community 12. School or district policy regarding sexual health instruction 13. Requirement of active parental consent 14. Too many other district/school priorities 15. Lack of Board of Trustees' approval of the curriculum 16. Other (please specify):

    Time frame: Baseline

  5. Challenges to implementation that have prevented your district/school from adopting bullying prevention education

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories; 1. There have been no challenges 2. Lack of time to teach the curriculum 3. No substitute teachers available 4. Lack of curriculum resources (not including funding) 5. Lack of funding 6. Teacher comfort level with the content 7. Lack of training opportunities for teachers 8. Concerns about parents' reactions 9. Concerns about students' reactions 10. Concerns about reactions from administration or district 11. Concerns about reactions from the community 12. School or district policy regarding sexual health instruction 13. Requirement of active parental consent 14. Too many other district/school priorities 15. Lack of Board of Trustees' approval of the curriculum 16. Other (please specify):

    Time frame: Baseline

  6. Intentions to replace current curriculum:dating violence prevention instruction

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories; 1. Yes 2. No 3. Don't know

    Time frame: Baseline

  7. Intentions to replace current curriculum: bullying prevention instruction

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories; 1. Yes 2. No 3. Don't know

    Time frame: Baseline

  8. Intentions to adopt an evidence-based program:dating violence prevention instruction

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories; 1. Yes 2. No 3. Don't know

    Time frame: Baseline

  9. Intentions to adopt an evidence-based program:bullying prevention instruction

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories; 1. Yes 2. No 3. Don't know

    Time frame: Baseline

  10. Acceptability

    This will be reported categorically on a Five-point Likert scale in the following categories "Like a Lot", "Like a Little", "Dislike a Little", "Dislike a Lot", and "Did Not Use"

    Time frame: Three weeks post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  11. Helpfulness

    This will be reported categorically on a three-point Likert scale in the following categories: "Less helpful", "As helpful", and "More helpful"

    Time frame: Three weeks post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  12. Perceived impact

    This will be categorically reported in the following categories: 1. yes 2. no 3. no opinion

    Time frame: Three weeks post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  13. Credibility

    This will be categorically reported in the following categories: 1. Accurate 2. Inaccurate 3. No opinion

    Time frame: Three weeks post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  14. Motivational Appeal

    This will be categorically reported in the following categories: 1. yes 2. no 3. no opinion

    Time frame: Three weeks post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  15. Change in Compatibility

    this will be reported categorically on a Four-point Likert scale in the following categories: Strongly disagree disagree agree strongly agree

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  16. Change in Complexity

    this will be reported categorically on a Four-point Likert scale in the following categories: Strongly disagree disagree agree strongly agree

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  17. Change in Perceived social systems support (for evidence-based programs)

    this will be reported categorically on a Four-point Likert scale in the following categories: Not at all supportive supportive very supportive don't know

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  18. Change in Presence of organizational policy

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories: 1. No, and we have no plans to do so. 2. No, but we are planning to implement an opt-in parental consent policy in the future. 3. Yes, we are at an early stage of implementing an opt-in parental consent policy 4. Yes, we have implemented an opt-in parental consent policy, but it is inconsistently implemented at the district or school. 5. Yes, we have implemented an opt-in parental consent policy fully and systematically across the district or school. 6. Don't know.

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  19. Challenges that have prevented your district/school from adopting dating violence prevention education

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories: 1. There have been no challenges 2. Lack of time to teach the curriculum 3. No substitute teachers available 4. Lack of curriculum resources (not including funding) 5. Lack of funding 6. Teacher comfort level with the content 7. Lack of training opportunities for teachers 8. Concerns about parents' reactions 9. Concerns about students' reactions 10. Concerns about reactions from administration or district 11. Concerns about reactions from the community 12. School or district policy regarding sexual health instruction 13. Requirement of active (i.e., "opt-in") parental consent 14. Too many other district/school priorities 15. Lack of Board of Trustees' approval of the curriculum 16. Other (please specify):

    Time frame: Baseline

  20. Change in Intentions to use an evidence-based program

    This will be reported categorically on a Six-point Likert in the following categories: Definitely will Probably will Probably will not Definitely will not Dont know not applicable

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  21. Change in Awareness/knowledge (of evidence-based programs)

    This will be reported on a four point likert scale in the following categories: Strongly disagree disagree agree strongly agree

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  22. Change in Level of implementation

    This will be reported categorically as follows: Prioritize: Refers to making violence prevention a priority for your district Assess: Refers to understanding your district's population, needs, and resources Select: Refers to identifying an evidence-based program that fits your district's population, needs, and resources Approve: Refers to getting your school board to approve an evidence-based program for use. Prepare: Refers to planning for complete and successful implementation of an approved evidence-based program Implement: Refers to implementing your evidence-based program with fidelity Maintain: Refers to improving and sustaining implementation of an evidence-based program over time.

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months post iCHAMPS-YVP access

  23. Challenges that have been present when the district/school has implemented the curriculum for dating violence education instruction

    This will be reported categorically in the following categories; 1. There have been no challenges 2. Lack of time to teach the curriculum 3. No substitute teachers available 4. Lack of curriculum resources (not including funding) 5. Lack of funding 6. Teacher comfort level with the content 7. Lack of training opportunities for teachers 8. Concerns about parents' reactions 9. Concerns about students' reactions 10. Concerns about reactions from administration or district 11. Concerns about reactions from the community 12. School or district policy regarding sexual health instruction 13. Requirement of active parental consent 14. Too many other district/school priorities 15. Lack of Board of Trustees' approval of the curriculum 16. Other (please specify):

    Time frame: Baseline

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Study locations

1 site
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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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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 3, 2025, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07223957
Collaborators
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Injury Control Research Centers (ICRC)
Responsible party
Belinda Hernandez (Associate Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston) — Principal investigator
First posted
Nov 3, 2025
Start date
Apr 1, 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jun 30, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 30, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 3, 2025

Study contacts

Belinda Hernandez, PhD, MPH
Contact
Belinda.Hernandez@uth.tmc.edu
(210) 276-9009
Rhoda A Leos
Contact
Rhoda.Leos@uth.tmc.edu
(713) 500-9000
Belinda Hernandez, PhD, MPH
principal investigator · The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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