Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2020
Bystander Program Effectiveness to Reduce Violence and Violence Acceptance Within Sexual Minority Male and Female High School Students Using a Cluster RCT.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review and equity analysis of school-based violence prevention interventions evaluated in randomised controlled trials.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Factors affecting the risk of gender-based violence among 2SLGBTQIA+ adolescents and youth: a scoping review of climate change-related vulnerabilities.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Pooled it
- An Online Program for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Reduces Alcohol Use and Teen Dating Violence: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Trial
- Age and Sexual Orientation Moderated the Effects of a Bystander-Focused Interpersonal Violence Prevention Program for High School Students.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Trial
- Intermediate Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Group Program to Prevent Dating Violence and Alcohol Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority Teens.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2026Article
- The Role of Community Health Professionals in Addressing Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · 2026Review
- A Living Scoping Review of Universal Interventions for Promoting Relational Health in Childhood, Adolescence and Young Adulthood.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Article
- Opportunities to Improve the Implementation of Relational Health Interventions for Children and Families: A Secondary Analysis of a Scoping Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Article
- The Healthy Families Bright Futures Program: Open Pilot to Evaluate Acceptability, Appropriateness, and Feasibility of an Online Dating Violence and Alcohol Prevention Program for LGBTQ+ Youth and Their Caregivers.Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma · 2026Article
- On-line program for the prevention of dating violence: mixed descriptive cross-sectional and post-test pre-test study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Postdigital Bystanding: Youth Experiences of Sexual Violence Workshops in Schools in England, Ireland, and Canada.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Advancing sexual assault prevention through implementation science.Psychology of violence · 2024Article
- Improving School Environments for Preventing Sexual Violence Among LGBTQ+ Youth.The Journal of school health · 2024Article
- The influence of gender-equitable attitudes on sexual behaviour among unmarried adolescents in rural Tanzania: a longitudinal study.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2023Article
- Gender equitable attitudes as a significant mediator of bystander intentions among sexual minority adolescents.Journal of adolescence · 2023Article
- Are school-based interventions to prevent dating and relationship violence and gender-based violence equally effective for all students? Systematic review and equity analysis of moderation analyses in randomised trials.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Review
- Polyvictimization Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of a Judo Intervention Programme on the Psychosocial Area in Secondary School Education Students.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Sexual and Gender Minority Men's Bystander Behaviors and Barriers in Response to Witnessing Minor Sexual Aggression.Psychology of violence · 2023Article
- Rethinking Dating and SEXUAL Violence Prevention for Youth During the Pandemic: Examining Program Feasibility and Acceptability.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
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Abstract
Bystander interventions have been highlighted as promising strategies to reduce sexual violence and sexual harassment, yet their effectiveness for sexual minority youth remains largely unexamined in high schools' populations. This rigorous cluster randomized control trial addresses this gap by evaluating intervention effectiveness among sexual majority and minority students known be to at increased risk of sexual violence. Kentucky high schools were randomized to intervention or control conditions. In intervention schools, educators provided school-wide Green Dot presentations (phase 1) and intensive bystander training to student popular opinion leaders (phase 2). Each spring from 2010 to 2014, students attending 26 high schools completed anonymous surveys about violence acceptance and violent events. An analytic sample of 74,836 surveys with no missing data over the 5 years was available. Sexual violence acceptance scores declined significantly over time in intervention versus control schools among all but sexual minority males. This intervention was also associated with reductions in both perpetration and victimization of sexual violence, sexual harassment, and physical dating violence among sexual majority yet not sexual minority youth. Both sexual minority and majority youth experienced reductions in stalking victimization and perpetration associated with the intervention. In this large cluster randomized controlled trial, the bystander intervention appears to work best to reduce violence for sexual majority youth. Bystander programs may benefit from explicitly engaging sexual minority youth in intervention efforts or adapting intervention programs to include attitudes that shape the experience of sexual minority high school youth (e.g., homophobic teasing, homonegativity).
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