Cadet Healthy Personal Skills Intervention Trial

NCT ID: NCT03839797

Last Updated: 2019-02-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 1050 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-06-27
• Study Completion Date: 2018-08-30

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new approach to sexual violence prevention by promoting healthy relationships and personal life skills among incoming Air Force cadets at the United States Air Force Academy.

Detailed Description

National Health Promotion Associates (NHPA) adapted the Botvin Life Skills Training (LST) program for incoming fourth class cadets at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). The resulting adaptation, called Cadet Healthy Personal Skills (CHiPS), provides cadets with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills to enhance their personal resilience, increase their potential for success, help them develop healthy and rewarding personal relationships, and reduce sexual harassment and assault. The CHiPS program includes ten units, spread across three blocks of content, and each block teaches cadets a range of life skills. All incoming fourth class cadets (N=1,203) were invited to participate in this study, beginning in the Summer of 2017, and of those, 1,098 cadets (91.3%) consented to participate in the trial.Twenty-five facilitators were trained to implement the newly adapted CHiPS program. Half of the incoming class [four Basic Cadet Training (BCT) squadrons] was assigned to receive the intervention, while the other half (four BCT squadrons) continued to receive standard trainings already in place at USAFA. All cadets completed a self-report survey at pretest, posttest, and at a 12-month follow-up

Conditions

Sexual Behavior; Skills, Social; Skills, Coping

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Cadet Healthy Personal Skills

Cadet Healthy Personal Skills

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Cadet Healthy Personal Skills

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

7.5 hour skills training group intervention

Standard Health Education

Standard Health Education

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Standard Health Education

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Standard Health Education

Interventions

Cadet Healthy Personal Skills

7.5 hour skills training group intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Standard Health Education

Standard Health Education

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• incoming cadet at USAFA

Exclusion Criteria

• None

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

United States Air Force

FED

Sponsor Role: collaborator

National Health Promotion Associates, Inc.

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Kenneth W Griffin

Senior Research Scientist

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Kenneth W Griffin, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

National Health Promotion Associates

Locations

National Health Promotion Associates

White Plains, New York, United States

Countries

United States

References

Griffin KW, Williams C, Travis W, Tharp A. Prevention of Unwanted Sexual Contact Among Cadets at the United States Air Force Academy: A Brief Small-Group Intervention. Am J Public Health. 2021 Apr;111(4):672-674. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306050. Epub 2021 Jan 21.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 33476231 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

FAC20170050H

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id