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Free From Abuse: The Booster Project

NCT ID: NCT04171206

Last Updated: 2020-11-06

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

148 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-12-01

Study Completion Date

2020-07-15

Brief Summary

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This project is designed to develop and test a brief internet-delivered intervention to promote healthy relationships among young adults.

Detailed Description

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In spite of the fact that young adults are at an increased risk of experiencing and perpetrating intimate partner violence (IPV), there is a lack of universal and widely accessible prevention programmes targeted at this age group. One of the reasons for this may be that it is difficult to deliver a universal prevention to individuals who are not formally grouped through one organisation, such as employed young adults. Those who are formally grouped, such as university students, are unlikely to take part in a lengthy prevention programme which is not a part of an official curriculum. Therefore, there is a need for widely available, accessible, and efficacious IPV prevention programmes that could be appropriate for all young adults regardless of gender. Since many young adults in contemporary Western societies were exposed to some kind of relationship education in schools, it may be that a brief programme will suffice to further boost their awareness of IPV and reduce IPV perpetration and victimisation risk. Therefore, we propose a brief internet-based intervention, Free From Abuse - The Booster Project, to achieve these objectives.

Primary objectives:

1. To investigate the acceptability and feasibility of the internet-delivered intervention to university students (determined using the 1 and 4-week follow-up rates, % of participants who correctly answered control questions assessing compliance);
2. To assess the acceptability and feasibility of the outcome measures as methods to measure effectiveness of the intervention within a definitive trial (determined using % of missing data);
3. To estimate the standard deviation (SD) for the continuous outcomes to inform sample size calculations for a definitive trial.

Secondary objective:

1\. To evaluate the potential effectiveness of the brief internet-delivered intervention, Free From Abuse - The Booster Project, in increasing recognition of abusive behaviour, as well as reducing acceptance of myths about domestic violence, abuse perpetration, and abuse victimisation among young university students compared with placebo.

Conditions

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Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Domestic

Keywords

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Interpersonal partner violence Dating violence Internet-delivered intervention

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Investigators

Study Groups

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Free From Abuse

This is a brief internet-delivered intervention designed to boost participants' ability to recognise abusive behaviour, reduce acceptance of myths related to domestic violence and IPV, as well as decrease abuse perpetration and victimisation.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Free From Abuse

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants in the treatment arm will watch a 15-minute talk given by an adult female survivor of IPV who tells the story of her abusive relationship. After watching the video, participants will read information on 10 signs of an unhealthy relationship. The intervention will take approximately 25 minutes to complete.

Technology and crime

This is a brief internet-delivered placebo intervention designed to inform participants about how the development of technology could affect crime.

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Technology and crime

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants in the placebo control arm will watch a 19-minute talk on technology development and crime. After watching the video, participants will read 10 facts about cyber security. The intervention will take approximately 25 minutes to complete.

Interventions

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Free From Abuse

Participants in the treatment arm will watch a 15-minute talk given by an adult female survivor of IPV who tells the story of her abusive relationship. After watching the video, participants will read information on 10 signs of an unhealthy relationship. The intervention will take approximately 25 minutes to complete.

Intervention Type OTHER

Technology and crime

Participants in the placebo control arm will watch a 19-minute talk on technology development and crime. After watching the video, participants will read 10 facts about cyber security. The intervention will take approximately 25 minutes to complete.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Participants must be university students aged between 18-24 years, reside in the UK, have access to a computer and internet connection, and be fluent in English.

Exclusion Criteria

* Participants will not be eligible to enrol in the trial if they have visual and/or auditory deficits with regards to watching video clips.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

24 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Huddersfield

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Sheffield

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Agata Debowska, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Sheffield

Locations

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The University of Sheffield

Sheffield, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

Other Identifiers

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031298

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id