An Arts-Based Initiative for the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls

• Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. Fed)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT00164541
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 1,440
• Locations: 4
• Duration (Months): 24
• Patients Per Site: 360
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 15

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

this project will evaluate a community and school based program to promote healthy relationships and prevent violence (physical, emotional and sexual dating violence) among predominately African American middle school adolescents in an urban setting (Baltimore, MD).

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Violence	Behavioral: Arts Based Program; Behavioral: Curriculum	Phase 1

Detailed Description

This initiative includes 4 major components: 1) A variety of arts based student activities related to violence prevention (during and after school theatre projects, during and/or after school visual arts project, and the web page design project. (All students will either directly participate in these activities or at least see them), 2) Curricular components for all 7th graders, 3) Violence prevention and early intervention student support/discussion groups, and 4) Faculty and staff training on the subject. The evaluation is a quasi-experimental pre/post test comparison group design (2 schools in each group), where our comparison schools convert to intervention schools one year after serving as comparison schools. We are using both group (student and teacher surveys) and school wide (climate of the school) measures pre and post intervention.

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 1440 participants
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: An Arts-Based Initiative for the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls
• Study Start Date: Sep 1, 2004
• Actual Study Completion Date: Sep 1, 2006

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Dating violence perpetration [past 12 months]

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Dating violence victimization [past 12 months]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 11 Years to 14 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students in four middle schools in urban Baltimore, MD (Dunbar, Lombard, Calverton and Lemmel Middle Schools)

Exclusion Criteria:

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Dunbar Middle School	Baltimore	Maryland	United States	21205
2	Calverton	Baltimore	Maryland	United States	21216
3	Lemmel Middle School	Baltimore	Maryland	United States	21216
4	Lombard School	Baltimore	Maryland	United States	21231

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Jaqueline Campbell, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00164541
• Other Study ID Numbers: CDC-NCIPC-3292; US4/CCU319009
• First Posted: Sep 14, 2005
• Last Update Posted: Sep 21, 2007
• Last Verified: Sep 1, 2007

• Keywords provided by , ,: dating violence; violence against women

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Sep 21, 2007