SynthesisThe Lancet. Child & adolescent health2021
Adolescent dating violence prevention programmes: a global systematic review of evaluation studies.
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- Secondary and Tertiary Prevention for Adolescent Dating Violence: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
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- Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Prevention Among Youth: A Community Guide Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Prevention of violence against women and girls: A cost-effectiveness study across 6 low- and middle-income countries.PLoS medicine · 2022Trial
- Educational and skills-based interventions for preventing relationship and dating violence in adolescents and young adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026Article
- A Scoping Review of IPV Prevention Curricula and Their Implementation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Implications for the Next Generation of Programs.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Research on Law and Policy to Prevent Teen Dating Violence: Scoping Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Article
- Personality and mental health as mediators linking childhood maltreatment to intimate partner violence victimization: a Mendelian randomization-direction of causation twin study.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2026Article
- What Teens Hear and How They React: Adolescent Perspectives on Substance Use, Sexual Risk, and Sexual Violence Prevention in Primary Care.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The PREvention Program for Adolescent Relationship and Emotional Development (PREPARED): a proof-of-concept study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Lived-experience perspectives on the psychological factors linking childhood maltreatment to later intimate partner violence victimization.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Violence and Depression Among Adolescent Boys in Soweto, South Africa, 2020‒2023.American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus: A pilot randomised controlled trial of a co-developed intervention with young South Africans.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Commentary: Catalysts of violence against women students: the role of the university, aggressors, and victims.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- What is a healthy dating relationship and what helps it get there? Perceptions of Chilean adolescents from a gender and inclusivity perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Equipping community health workers in Rwanda to deliver a gender transformative parenting program to prevent violence against women and children at scale.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Article
- Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships to Implement and Evaluate Sexual and Relationship Violence Prevention Programs for Boys and Men.Violence against women · 2024Article
- [Primary prevention of gender-based violence].Atencion primaria · 2024Article
- Assessing the durability of a cash transfer on physical intimate partner violence and sexual relationships among adolescent girls and young women in rural South Africa.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Societal Factors and Teen Dating Violence: a Scoping Review.Current epidemiology reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Adolescent dating violence negatively affects millions of young people worldwide. Through a global systematic review, we synthesised evidence from rigorous studies of prevention programmes for adolescent dating violence. Our aims were to: (1) describe the breadth of research in this area and evidence of programme effects, and (2) identify gaps in the evidence base. We included experimental and controlled quasi-experimental programme evaluations, published before Jan 1, 2020, that assessed effects on victimisation or perpetration, or both, in adolescent dating violence and in which at least half of the study population was 10-19 years old. Study design, programme elements, and outcomes were compared between evaluations implemented in high-income countries (HICs) and low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). 52 evaluations met inclusion criteria, of which 20 (38%) were implemented in LMICs. Evaluations in HICs were more likely to assess effects on adolescent dating violence victimisation and perpetration, rather than just victimisation, than those in LMICs, and they were also more likely to include boys and girls, as opposed to just a single sex. Overall, 26 (50%) of the 52 evaluations reported a significant preventive effect on at least one outcome for adolescent dating violence, of which nine were implemented in LMICs. Across LMICs and HICs, findings suggest research is needed to shed light on how adolescent dating violence prevention programmes work and to identify whether programme effects generalise across different settings, outcomes, and subgroups. TRANSLATIONS: For the Chinese, French and Spanish translations of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.
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