The Safe Dates Project: theoretical basis, evaluation design, and selected baseline findings

摘要: Approximately 20% of adolescents have experienced violence from a dating partner. The Safe Dates Project tests the effects program on primary and secondary prevention among living in rural North Carolina county. being evaluated aims to prevent by changing norms, gender stereotyping, conflict-management skills, help-seeking, cognitive factors associated with help-seeking. School activities include theater production, 10-session curriculum, poster contest. Community special services for violent relationships community service provider training. A pretest-posttest experimental design random allocation 14 schools treatment condition was used test study hypotheses. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires. Eighty-one percent (n = 1,967) eighth- ninth-graders county completed baseline questionnaires, 91% those follow-up sample is 75.9% Caucasian 50.4% female. Baseline data indicate that 25.4% 8.0% this been victims nonsexual sexual violence, respectively, 14.0% 2.0% perpetrators respectively. Consistent other adolescent studies, both boys girls report violence. Control groups are similar at all demographic, mediating, outcome variables. Findings suggest prevalent programs warranted.