NCT03205059

An Evidence-based Approach for Bullying Prevention

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Health Promotion Associates, Inc. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 11 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This Phase II SBIR project is designed to address the critical public health problem of bullying and cyberbullying among middle school age youth. The project involves developing and testing bullying and cyberbullying prevention materials, including interactive classroom sessions and corresponding serious games, based on the evidence-based substance abuse prevention approach called Life Skills Training. The product has the potential to fill a gap in the intervention tools currently available to schools that can be widely disseminated throughout the country using existing marketing and dissemination channels and decrease the adverse consequences of bullying and cyberbullying as well as substance abuse.

Conditions

• Bullying
• Cyberbullying
• Substance Use
• Substance Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	LST MS curriculum+ Bullying/Cyberbulling serious game	The prevention materials for middle school bullying and cyberbullying will (1) utilize both interactive classroom sessions and serious/educational games (digital games used to educate in an entertaining format); (2) positively change social norms surrounding bullying and cyberbulling; (3) challenge positive expectancies about bullying and cyberbullying; (4) enhance protective factors by building social, self-regulation, and relationship skills throughout the interactive learning and behavioral rehearsal; and (5) include booster sessions.
BEHAVIORAL	LST MS curriculum	The evidence-based LifeSkills Training program has been successfully used as a universal, school-based substance abuse and violence prevention program for middle school youth. The goals of the LST program are to teach youth the personal self-management skills, social skills, and other life skills needed to successfully resist drug and alcohol use, navigate developmental tasks, increase resilience, and facilitate healthy psychosocial development.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-06-01
• Primary completion: 2020-05-01
• Completion: 2020-05-01
• First posted: 2017-07-02
• Last updated: 2019-01-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States