Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships
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Conditions studied: Teen Dating Violence, Healthy Dating Relationship Behaviors
In brief
The Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships Initiative intends to promote respectful, nonviolent dating relationships among adolescents living in high-risk, urban communities. CDC has developed a comprehensive approach to promoting respectful, non-violent relationships based on current evidence based and evidence informed strategies. This comprehensive approach includes: school-based curricula for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students; separate parent programs for parents of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students; a communications campaign involving social media and near-peer brand ambassadors; an online training about dating violence for educators; policy assessment at the school or community level; and development and validation of school and community level indicators of teen dating violence. Additionally, schools assigned to the comprehensive condition will also receive intensive training and technical assistance to support implementation of these components. Among 4 U.S. sites, 44 schools will be randomly assigned to implement either the Dating Matters comprehensive approach or the "standard of care" approach, which we are operationalizing as Safe Dates, a an evidence based student curriculum for 8th graders. We hypothesize that the comprehensive approach will be more effective than the standard approach at preventing the perpetration and victimization of teen dating violence over time and at promoting positive relationship behaviors over time.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01672541
- Run by
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- People needed
- 10000
- Starts
- 2012-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-03-13
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Students, parents, and educators at the schools identified for participation in the study
You may not qualify if…
- Students and educators must be able to participate in interventions and complete surveys in English: Parents must be able to participate in interventions and complete surveys in English or Spanish. Those not able to do this due to languages spoken will be excluded.
Where it is running
- Alameda County Public Health Department — Oakland, California, United States
- Broward County Health Department — Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- Chicago Department of Public Health — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Baltimore City Health Department — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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