Adolescent Dating Violence Prevention Program for Early Adolescents: The Me & You Randomized Controlled Trial, 2014-2015

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. We conducted...

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Published in:	American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 109; no. 10; pp. 1419 - 1428
Main Authors:	Peskin, Melissa F, Markham, Christine M, Shegog, Ross, Baumler, Elizabeth R, Addy, Robert C, Temple, Jeff R, Hernandez, Belinda, Cuccaro, Paula M, Thiel, Melanie A, Gabay, Efrat K, Tortolero Emery, Susan R
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Public Health Association 01-10-2019
Subjects:	Adolescent Adolescent Behavior - psychology Adolescent Health Adolescents Aggression AJPH Open-Themed Research Attitudes Child Chronology Clinical trials Cognition & reasoning Cognitive ability Confidence intervals Crime Victims - psychology Crime Victims - statistics & numerical data Domestic violence Drug use Education Emotions Ethnicity Gender Gift cards & certificates Health care Health Promotion - organization & administration Hispanic Americans Humans Injury/Emergency Care/Violence Instructional design Intervention Intimate partner violence Intimate Partner Violence - prevention & control Intimate Partner Violence - psychology Middle schools Minority & ethnic groups Neighborhoods Parents & parenting Personal relationships Prevention Prevention programs Program Evaluation Public health Randomization Regression analysis School districts School Health School Health Services - organization & administration Schools Sex discrimination Statistical analysis Students Suicides & suicide attempts Technology Teenagers Texas Urban Population Urban schools Victimization Victims of crime Violence Texas United States > US
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Summary:	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. 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. 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. Me & You is effective in reducing DV perpetration and decreasing some forms of DV victimization in early middle-school ethnic-minority students.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 ObjectType-Undefined-3 Peer Reviewed M. F. Peskin was the study’s principal investigator, obtained the funding, conceptualized and designed the study, and wrote the article. C. M. Markham, R. Shegog, J. R. Temple, B. Hernandez, and P. M. Cuccaro were involved in the conceptualization and evaluation of the intervention. E. R. Baumler was the study’s statistician and conducted all data analyses. R. C. Addy was the study’s data manager and assisted with data analyses. M. A. Thiel and E. K. Gabay directed the study activities and were involved in the conceptualization and evaluation of the intervention. S. R. Tortolero Emery was the study’s principal investigator and conceptualized and designed the study. All co-authors offered critical revisions to the article and approved the final version. CONTRIBUTORS
ISSN:	0090-0036 1541-0048
DOI:	10.2105/AJPH.2019.305218