Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2021
Effects of the Dating Matters® Comprehensive Prevention Model on Health- and Delinquency-Related Risk Behaviors in Middle School Youth: a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01672541 (Randomized Controlled Trial of the "Dating Matters), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Randomized Controlled Trial of the "Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships" Comprehensive Approach
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review on Sexual Health and Drug Use Prevention Interventions for Black Girls.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of a Middle School Dating Violence Prevention Program on Depression at 5-Year Follow-Up.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Trial
- High School Follow-Up of the Dating Matters® RCT: Effects on Teen Dating Violence and Relationship Behaviors.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Trial
- Effects of Dating Matters® on Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Outcomes among Middle School Youth: a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Trial
- Engagement with a Text Message Booster to Extend a School-Based Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Transformational narrative changes as a community-level approach to the prevention of adverse childhood experiences and substance use.American journal of community psychology · 2024Article
- Preventing sexual violence among high school students through norms correction and bystander intervention: A school-based cluster trial of Your Voice Your View.Journal of community psychology · 2023Article
- Investigating the Relative Influence of Romantic Sex Partners and Close Friends on Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Barriers to addressing alcohol use in college sexual assault prevention: Where we stand and future steps.Current addiction reports · 2022Article
- Estimating From the Payer Perspective the Implementation Cost of Dating Matters®: A Comprehensive Teen Dating Violence Prevention Model.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2022Article
- Teen Dating Violence Victimization: Associations Among Peer Justification, Attitudes Toward Gender Inequality, Sexual Activity, and Peer Victimization.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2022Article
- Bystanders to Prevent Peer Sexual Violence: Understanding Patterns of Prosocial Behavior Over Time from Early to Later Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2021Article
- Dating Matters and the Future of Teen Dating Violence Prevention.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Review
- The Dating MattersImplementation research and practice · 2020Article
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11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Teen dating violence (TDV) is associated with a variety of delinquent behaviors, such as theft, and health- and delinquency-related risk behaviors, including alcohol use, substance abuse, and weapon carrying. These behaviors may co-occur due to shared risk factors. Thus, comprehensive TDV-focused prevention programs may also impact these other risk behaviors. This study examined the effectiveness of CDC's Dating Matters®: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships (Dating Matters) comprehensive TDV prevention model compared to a standard-of-care condition on health- and delinquency-related risk behaviors among middle school students. Students (N = 3301; 53% female; 50% black, non-Hispanic; and 31% Hispanic) in 46 middle schools in four sites across the USA were surveyed twice yearly in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. A structural equation modeling framework with multiple imputation to account for missing data was utilized. On average over time, students receiving Dating Matters scored 9% lower on a measure of weapon carrying, 9% lower on a measure of alcohol and substance abuse, and 8% lower on a measure of delinquency by the end of middle school than students receiving an evidence-based standard-of-care TDV prevention program. Dating Matters demonstrated protective effects for most groups of students through the end of middle school. These results suggest that this comprehensive model is successful at preventing risk behaviors associated with TDV. clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01672541.
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