NCT04564261

Examining the Effectiveness of the myPlan App to Prevent Dating Violence With Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 617 (actual)
• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Intimate partner violence (IPV), including violence in teen dating relationships \[teen dating violence (TDV)\], is a common and a serious threat to adolescent health, safety, and well-being. TDV may include psychological/emotional abuse, sexual harassment or coercion, stalking (including cyberstalking), and physical or sexual violence. For many, the first experience of violence is in a dating or casual relationship with a partner or acquaintance during adolescence. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of an adapted version of the myPlan app for adolescents (ages 15-17 years) to prevent and respond to TDV. myPlan is an app available for mobile download or by web browser that interactively assists users to assess the health and safety of user's intimate relationship, receive personalized strategies on how build healthier relationships, stay safe and healthy while navigating an unsafe relationship, and get connected to support and resources.

Conditions

• Intimate Partner Violence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Personalized Healthy Relationship and Safety Planning Tool	The app delivers evidence-based information and resources in three sections: My Relationship: contains a series of activities (e.g., "quizzes") to raise awareness of common myths about unhealthy relationships, determine characteristics of healthy relationships, examine the red flags in an unhealthy relationship, and assess risk factors for more severe abuse. Participants are provided with personalized messages about their relationship health and safety based on the answers they endorse. My Strategies: personalized strategies to increase participants' safety and well-being based on responses in the previous section. My Resources: direct links to the National Dating Abuse hotline, textline, and chatline, as well as personalized health and safety resources.
BEHAVIORAL	Usual Care Teen Relationship and Health Website	The control group website will provide participants with tools to learn about health topics including examining healthy relationships. The resources will be targeted to adolescents. The control group website is not personalized to the participant or their relationship.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-06
• Primary completion: 2022-08-25
• Completion: 2022-08-25
• First posted: 2020-09-25
• Last updated: 2022-09-02

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States