Teen Dating Violence Prevention: Cluster-Randomized Trial of Teen Choices, an Online, Stage-Based Program for Healthy, Nonviolent Relationships

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• Alternative Title:
  Psychol Violence
• Personal Author:
  Levesque, Deborah A. ; Johnson, Janet L. ; Welch, Carol A. ; Prochaska, Janice M. ; Paiva, Andrea L.
• Description:
  Objective
  
  Teen dating violence is a serious public health problem. A cluster-randomized trial was conducted to assess the efficacy of Teen Choices, a 3-session online program that delivers assessments and individualized guidance matched to dating history, dating violence experiences, and stage of readiness for using healthy relationship skills. For high risk victims of dating violence, the program addresses readiness to keep oneself safe in relationships.
  
  Method
  
  Twenty high schools were randomly assigned to the Teen Choices condition (n=2,000) or a Comparison condition (n=1,901). Emotional and physical dating violence victimization and perpetration were assessed at 6 and 12 months in the subset of participants (total n=2,605) who reported a past-year history of dating violence at baseline, and/or who dated during the study.
  
  Results
  
  The Teen Choices program was associated with significantly reduced odds of all four types of dating violence (adjusted ORs ranging from .45 to .63 at 12 months follow-up). For three of the four violence outcomes, participants with a past-year history of that type of violence benefited significantly more from the intervention than students without a past-year history.
  
  Conclusions
  
  The Teen Choices program provides an effective and practicable strategy for intervention for teen dating violence prevention.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescence Article Cluster-randomized Trial Computerized Intervention Dating Violence Prevention Relationship Skills Stages Of Change
• Source:
  Psychol Violence. 6(3):421-432
• Pubmed ID:
  27482470
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4959811
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R43 CE000499/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; R44 MH086129/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  6
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7c4d61c9c7ec040e516d8a3e2630e08a7eb9a73a0a5902277a9621c7b92ca5b2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40662/cdc_40662_DS1.pdf
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