Evaluating a Video Bystander Program for First-Year College Students

TakeCARE: A Video Bystander Program to Prevent Sexual Violence on College Campuses

This study will evaluate an innovative video bystander program, which has the potential to be implemented broadly and cost-effectively across college campuses. Half of the participants will receive the video bystander program, and the other half will not.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Bystander Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: TakeCARE (video bystander program)

Detailed Description

Sexual violence, which includes both sexual coercion and assault, is a significant problem on college campuses due to its high prevalence and adverse consequences. This research will evaluate an innovative video bystander program, which has the potential to be implemented broadly and cost-effectively across college campuses. We will recruit first-year college students from each of 4 college campuses (Southern Methodist University, Marquette University, William Paterson University, and Stony Brook University).

The video bystander program (TakeCARE) starts with a narrator acknowledging the various demands placed on students in attempting to balance adult responsibilities with the social opportunities of college, as well as the importance of keeping safe while engaging in these social activities. The program describes how likely it is that people they know may become a victim of sexual violence and how they can help "take care of their friends" to help prevent victimization. TakeCARE includes 3 video vignettes that demonstrate ways that students can intervene when they see sexual coercion, relationship violence, or other situations that might result in harm.

After a baseline assessment, students will be randomly assigned to view one of two video programs: TakeCARE (the video bystander program) or a control video program. A post-treatment assessment will be completed within a week of viewing the video program, and follow-up assessments will be completed 2 months and 6 months after baseline.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 1000
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Texas
    • Dallas, Texas, United States, 75230
      • Southern Methodist University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• first-year college students

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Video Bystander Program; TakeCARE video	Behavioral: TakeCARE (video bystander program); brief video encouraging active responses to high-risk situations for campus violence
No Intervention: Control Video; Study Skills Video

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in bystander behavior	Self-report measure: Bystander Behavior Scale	Baseline and 2 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in bystander behavior	Observations using virtual reality protocol	Baseline and 2 months
Change in bystander efficacy	Self-report measure: Bystander Efficacy Scale	Baseline and 2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Southern Methodist University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Ernest Jouriles, Ph.D., Southern Methodist University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): July 1, 2018
• Study Completion (Anticipated): March 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 13, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 14, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): February 17, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 3, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 2, 2018
• Last Verified: May 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 5R21HD085063 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No