NCT02083302

Experimentally Testing the Effectiveness of a Campus-based Bystander Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4,385 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a bystander intervention education program on college students' attitudes and behaviors associated with bystander intervention and sexual violence.

Detailed description

This study used a randomized control trial, longitudinal design to determine the impact of a peer education theater intervention on undergraduate student attitudes and behaviors related to sexual violence and bystander intervention. Students were assigned to either an experimental group (receiving 3-4 doses of the intervention ) or a comparison group (receiving 1 dose only) and were surveyed six times over an 18 month period.

Conditions

• Assaultive Behavior
• Violence
• Sexual Assault and Rape
• Helping Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SCREAM Theater Dose 1	Intervention 1: A three part program: a skit acted out by peer educators that depicts a sexual assault; an in-character question and answer session; and an out-of-character information session.
BEHAVIORAL	SCREAM Theater Doses 2 & SCREAM Theater Dose 3	Dose 2: Scenes from the skit from Session 1 are re-created with small groups of students, but stop at certain points to allow audience members to explore different bystander intervention possibilities. Dose 3: The six scenes outlined in Session 2 are presented individually to small groups of student participants; specifically outlining potential points of bystander intervention.
BEHAVIORAL	SCREAM Theater Dose 4	Booster Session

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-06-01
• Primary completion: 2012-02-01
• Completion: 2012-02-01
• First posted: 2014-03-11
• Last updated: 2014-03-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States