American Journal of Public Health · 2019 · 45 citations · 55 references
Public HealthEducational PsychologyPreventive MedicineAdolescent DevelopmentAdolescent HealthViolence PreventionDating Violence PreventionIntimate Partner Violence PreventionSexual Violence PreventionVictimization PreventionViolenceYouth Violence PreventionAdolescent Dating Violence PreventionAdolescents As VictimsInterpersonal Violence PreventionMultilevel RegressionPsychosocial FunctioningSecondary Impact AssessmentTeen Dating Violence VictimizationYouth Victimization Prevention
Objectives. To test the efficacy of Me & You, a multilevel technology-enhanced adolescent dating violence (DV) intervention, in reducing DV perpetration and victimization among ethnic-minority early adolescent youths. We assessed secondary impact for specific DV types and psychosocial outcomes. Methods. We conducted a group-randomized controlled trial of 10 middle schools from a large urban school district in Southeast Texas in 2014 to 2015. We used multilevel regression modeling; the final analytic sample comprised 709 sixth-grade students followed for 1 year. Results. Among the total sample, odds of DV perpetration were lower among intervention students than among control students (adjusted odds ratio = 0.46; 95% confidence interval = 0.28, 0.74). Odds of DV victimization were not significantly different. There were significant effects on some specific DV types. Conclusions. Me & You is effective in reducing DV perpetration and decreasing some forms of DV victimization in early middle-school ethnic-minority students.
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