RCT Testing Bystander Effectiveness to Reduce Violence.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Bystander-based programs have shown promise to reduce interpersonal violence at colleges, yet limited rigorous evaluations have addressed bystander intervention effectiveness in high schools. This study evaluated the Green Dot bystander intervention to reduce sexual violence and related forms of interpersonal violence in 26 high schools over 5 years.

Design

A cluster RCT was conducted.

Setting/participants

Kentucky high schools were randomized to intervention or control (wait list) conditions.

Intervention

Green Dot-trained educators conducted schoolwide presentations and recruited student popular opinion leaders to receive bystander training in intervention schools beginning in Year 1.

Main outcome measures

The primary outcome was sexual vi

SUBMITTER: Coker AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5737001 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature