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Preventing sexual violence in college men: a randomized-controlled trial of GlobalConsent
- Source :
- BMC Public Health, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-19 (2020), BMC Public Health
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- BMC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background Sexual violence—any sexual act committed against a person without freely given consent—disproportionately affects women. Women’s first experiences of sexual violence often occur in adolescence. In Asia and the Pacific, 14% of sexually experienced adolescent girls report forced sexual debut. Early prevention with men that integrates a bystander framework is one way to address attitudes and behavior while reducing potential resistance to participation. Methods This paper describes a study protocol to adapt RealConsent for use in Vietnam and to test the impact of the adapted program—GlobalConsent—on cognitive/attitudinal/affective mediators, and in turn, on sexual violence perpetration and prosocial bystander behavior. RealConsent is a six-session, web-based educational entertainment program designed to prevent sexual violence perpetration and to enhance prosocial bystander behavior in young men. The program has reduced the incidence of sexual violence among men attending an urban, public university in the Southeastern United States. We used formative qualitative research and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Map of the Adaptation Process to adapt RealConsent. We conducted semi-structured interviews with college men (n = 12) and women (n = 9) to understand the social context of sexual violence. We conducted focus group discussions with university men and stakeholders (n = 14) to elicit feedback on the original program. From these data, we created scripts in storyboard format of the adapted program. We worked closely with a small group of university men to elicit feedback on the storyboards and to refine them for acceptability and production. We are testing the final program—GlobalConsent—in a randomized controlled trial in heterosexual or bisexual freshmen men 18–24 years attending two universities in Hanoi. We are testing the impact of GlobalConsent (n = 400 planned), relative to a health-education attention control condition we developed (n = 400 planned), on cognitive/attitudinal/affective mediators, prosocial bystander behavior, and sexual violence perpetration. Discussion This project is the first to test the impact of an adapted, theoretically grounded, web-based educational entertainment program to prevent sexual violence perpetration and to promote prosocial bystander behavior among young men in a middle-income country. If effective, GlobalConsent will have exceptional potential to prevent men’s sexual violence against women globally. Trial registration U.S. National Library of Medicine Clinicaltrials.govNCT04147455 on November 1, 2019 (Version 1). Retrospectively registered. Protocol amendments will be submitted to clinicaltrials.gov.
- Subjects :
- Male
Adolescent
Universities
Sexual Behavior
Campus sexual assault
Poison control
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Suicide prevention
03 medical and health sciences
Social norms approach
Young Adult
Study Protocol
0302 clinical medicine
Bystander behavior
Injury prevention
Social Norms
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Health Education
Sexual violence
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Educational entertainment (edutainment)
Social norms theory
business.industry
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Sex Offenses
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Men
lcsh:RA1-1270
Behavioral change communication
Focus group
United States
Bystander self-efficacy
Prosocial behavior
Attitude
Vietnam
Research Design
Female
business
Psychological Theory
Social cognitive theory
Internet-Based Intervention
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14712458
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....be2261847e86835658ca217315fd563e