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

NCT ID: NCT03482687

Last Updated: 2018-03-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 834 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2015-05-31

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

Adolescent Behavior; Interpersonal Relationships; Domestic Violence; Physical Violence

Study Design

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

Study Groups

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.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Me & You: Building Healthy Relationships

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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).

Comparison Group

No intervention was provided, only usual care.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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. 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).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 11 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Melissa Peskin

Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Melissa Peskin, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Texas Houston School of Public Health

Susan Tortolero Emery, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Texas Houston School of Public Health

Locations

Melissa Fleschler Peskin

Houston, Texas, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

HSC-SPH-12-0593

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id