A Web-based Bystander Education Program

NCT ID: NCT01903876

Last Updated: 2014-07-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 743 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2011-05-31

Brief Summary

This is a study to determine whether a theoretically-driven web-based 3-hour intervention designed for male college students called RealConsent is effective in increasing prosocial intervening behaviors and in preventing sexual violence perpetration. Sexual violence programs for this population have been implemented for decades in the United States, but a program that is web-based and incorporates the bystander education model has never been implemented or tested. In this study, male college students will be recruited online, enrolled and randomly assigned to RealConsent or to a comparison condition. Prior to the intervention, investigators will ask questions about their intervening and sexually coercive behaviors and other theoretical and empirical factors related to the study outcomes. Investigators will survey the young men again at post-intervention, and at 6-months follow-up to determine whether young men in the RealConsent program intervened more often and engaged in less sexual violence compared to young men in the comparison condition. The main hypotheses are: (1) college men in the RealConsent program will report more instances of prosocial intervening; and (2) college men in the RealConsent program will report less sexual violence against women.

Conditions

Sexual Violence

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

General Health promotion

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

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

General Health Promotion

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This general health promotion web-based program is 3-hours and provides a range of activities related to reducing day-to day stress and alleviating anxiety through meditation and exercise.

Bystander & Sexual Violence Prevention

A 3-hour web-based program designed to teach male college student bystanders to intervene.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Bystander & Sexual Violence Prevention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This 3-hour web-based program consists of six 30-minute modules that are interactive and range in number of segments (1-14) and types of activities. Each of the modules involves interactivity, didactic activities and two episodes of a serial drama, which allows for the modeling of positive behaviors and illustrate both positive and negative outcome expectations for intervening and for perpetrating abuse against women. Behaviors modeled include communicating with female sex partners, obtaining informed consent to have sex, and intervening to prevent abuse from taking place.

Interventions

Bystander & Sexual Violence Prevention

This 3-hour web-based program consists of six 30-minute modules that are interactive and range in number of segments (1-14) and types of activities. Each of the modules involves interactivity, didactic activities and two episodes of a serial drama, which allows for the modeling of positive behaviors and illustrate both positive and negative outcome expectations for intervening and for perpetrating abuse against women. Behaviors modeled include communicating with female sex partners, obtaining informed consent to have sex, and intervening to prevent abuse from taking place.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

General Health Promotion

This general health promotion web-based program is 3-hours and provides a range of activities related to reducing day-to day stress and alleviating anxiety through meditation and exercise.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

RealConsent; Stress & Mood Management

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Student matriculated at Georgia State University
• Male
• 18 to 24
• Undergraduate
• Self-identify as heterosexual or bisexual

Exclusion Criteria

• Graduate student
• Self-identify as homosexual

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 24 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

FED

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Emory University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Laura F Salazar

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Laura F Salazar, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Emory University

Locations

Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Countries

United States

References

Salazar LF, Vivolo-Kantor A, Hardin J, Berkowitz A. A web-based sexual violence bystander intervention for male college students: randomized controlled trial. J Med Internet Res. 2014 Sep 5;16(9):e203. doi: 10.2196/jmir.3426.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 25198417 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

R49CE000892

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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EmoryVAW

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

IRB00000472

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id