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Me & You-Tech: A Socio-Ecological Solution to Teen Dating Violence for the Digital Age

NCT ID: NCT05225727

Last Updated: 2025-12-24

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

123 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-10-01

Study Completion Date

2024-12-14

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a multi-level (youth, parent, school) Internet-based dating violence prevention program, 'Me \& You-Tech' (MYT) for 6th-grade middle school students.

Detailed Description

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The purpose of this three year study is to develop and evaluate Me \& You - Tech, a computer-based healthy relationships and dating violence prevention curriculum for 6th grade students. The curriculum will be developed and adapted from an existing effective healthy relationship curriculum, Me \& You: Building Healthy Relationships. A randomized two-arm design will be conducted among 6th grade students, where students receiving the curriculum were compared to students receiving usual care. Four middle schools participated in the study, 2 schools were randomly assigned to receive the curriculum and two to receive usual care. Outcomes were assessed at baseline, 3 months following completion of the intervention, and 9 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 teen dating violence perpetration than those who do not receive the curriculum.

Conditions

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Adolescent Behavior Interpersonal Relations Domestic Violence Physical Violence

Keywords

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adolescent behavior interpersonal relationships intimate partner violence Violence/prevention & control program evaluation teen dating violence programs using technology

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention

Students randomized to the intervention group will receive Me \& You Tech in place of their standard health education.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Me & You - Tech

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The 13 MYT lessons will train youth to adopt a zero tolerance approach to dating violence (DV) and contain activities to enable youth to recognize healthy (non-abusive) and unhealthy (abusive) relationships, assess their own relationships, and adopt and practice a lifestyle paradigm of select-detect-protect informed by SCT self-regulatory frameworks. Within this lifestyle paradigm, youth select their personal rules to have only healthy (non-abusive) relationships, detect unhealthy (abusive) relationships that might threaten their rules, and learn to protect their rules using communication, management, and avoidance skills. MYT will tailor content by gender, relationship status, and the youth's DV profile of perpetration or victimization based on the Conflict in Adolescent Dating and Relationship Inventory (CADRI).

Control

Students assigned to the standard care condition will receive their usual health education which usually includes knowledge-based content on violence prevention taught from the state textbook

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Me & You - Tech

The 13 MYT lessons will train youth to adopt a zero tolerance approach to dating violence (DV) and contain activities to enable youth to recognize healthy (non-abusive) and unhealthy (abusive) relationships, assess their own relationships, and adopt and practice a lifestyle paradigm of select-detect-protect informed by SCT self-regulatory frameworks. Within this lifestyle paradigm, youth select their personal rules to have only healthy (non-abusive) relationships, detect unhealthy (abusive) relationships that might threaten their rules, and learn to protect their rules using communication, management, and avoidance skills. MYT will tailor content by gender, relationship status, and the youth's DV profile of perpetration or victimization based on the Conflict in Adolescent Dating and Relationship Inventory (CADRI).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 6th grade student
* Currently attending a middle school

Exclusion Criteria

* Previous participation in usability and feasibility testing
* Inability to complete activities
* Inability to read English
* Lack of home internet connectivity
Minimum Eligible Age

11 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

14 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Radiant Creative Group, LLC

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Texas

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Melissa Peskin

Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Melissa Peskin, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Texas Houston School of Public Health

Ross Shegog, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Texas Houston School of Public Health

Locations

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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Houston, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

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R42HD100233-01

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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HSC-SPH-19-0253

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id