An Athletic Coach-Delivered Middle School Gender Violence Prevention Program: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Adolescent relationship abuse (ARA) and sexual violence (SV) reported among adolescents point to the need for prevention among middle school-age youths.

Objective

To test an athletic coach-delivered relationship abuse and sexual violence prevention program among middle school male athletes.

Design, setting, and participants

An unblinded cluster randomized clinical trial from spring 2015 to fall 2017 at 41 middle schools (38 clusters). The study included 973 male middle school athletes (ages 11-14 years; grades 6-8; participation rate 50%) followed up for 1 year (retention 86%).

Interventions

Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) is a prevention program that trains athletic coaches to talk to male athletes about (1) respectful relationship behaviors, (2) prom

SUBMITTER: Miller E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6990799 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature