NCT01903876

A Web-based Bystander Education Program

Preventing Violence Against Women: A Web-based Approach

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 743 (actual)
• Sponsor: Emory University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 24 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	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.
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-05-01
• Completion: 2011-05-01
• First posted: 2013-07-19
• Last updated: 2014-07-23
• Results posted: 2014-07-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States